Passing time outside the CETI (Centre for Temporary Stay of Immigrants) facility in Melilla, Kassim and Delilah Hamdou, with their son, are Syrian migrants from Hama who arrived a month previously. Melilla is a Spanish city on the north coast of Africa, bounded by Morocco and the Mediterranean Sea. Many would-be migrants see it as the gateway to Europe which accounts for the high-level of security along its borders.