RABAT, Morocco—It’s a reverse migrant crisis: Moroccan workers trapped in Spain are begging their own government to let them come back home.
Construction worker Mohammed Benali is among hundreds of Moroccans who headed to their jobs in Spain’s North African enclave of Ceuta one day in March thinking they’d be home for dinner—but instead, they found themselves trapped for more than two months by Morocco’s abrupt and unusually strict border closures to keep out the virus.
