Cadiz, Spain - Recent (CGTN - No access Chinese mainland)
1. Various of African migrant, Momoudou Dion (not his real name), walking on street
2. Dion walking to reporter, shaking hands with him
UPSOUND (English) Momoudou Dion (not real name), African migrant/ reporter
"(reporter) Hello. How are you?"
"I'm fine."
"(reporter)Are you happy?"
"Yeah, I'm good."
3. Dion receiving interview
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Momoudou Dion (not real name), African migrant:
"I left my country because my life was in danger. So I don’t want them to know where I am."
5. Various of Dion showing where he came from to reporters with map
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Momoudou Dion (not real name), African migrant:
"Everything I will do will be in order to have a decent life next to my pregnant girlfriend."
7. Various of African migrants using cell phones, reading, writing
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Momoudou Dion (not real name), African migrant:
"She was really happy that I made it. She asked what I wanted to do next. I told her I loved France and I wanted to go there, so she started to get in touch with relatives there. She has a nephew there. He will accommodate us, we will ask for refuge there, life will be easier for us there."
9. Various of Dion showing where he came from to reporters with map
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Momoudou Dion (not real name), African migrant:
"They should accept migrants in Europe. They don’t realize what we suffer in our countries with police abuse, our politicians making false promises all the time. We feel better in Europe."
11. Various of Dion showing where he came from to reporters with map
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Momoudou Dion (not real name), African migrant:
"In the beginning people will maybe not accept it. But little by little after a few weeks they will accept it and it will be easier to find a place to stay and a job. I will take care of that."
13. Dion walking
14. Various of African migrants in hotel

Many of the sub-Saharan African migrants who risk reaching Spain's southern shores want to head north to France and elsewhere in Europe.

With wave after wave of migrants landing near Spain's famed tourist beaches, Spanish authorities and non-government organizations are losing no time to move them closer to northern EU neighbors like France.

The Red Cross assisted about 2,500 migrants in Barcelona this summer to make the journey. But further south, in places like Cadiz, the migrants have to figure out how to get north to Barcelona and on to the French border.

Momoudou Dion, from West Africa, is not his real name. He arrived in Spain two weeks ago after crossing the Mediterranean Sea to Europe without a visa. And he doesn’t want to reveal his real identity.

"I left my country because my life was in danger. So I don't want them to know where I am," said Dion.

Dion's story is not a typical migrant's one. He said he came with his girlfriend, who's pregnant against her father's wishes.

"Everything I will do will be in order to have a decent life next to my pregnant girlfriend," said Dion.

Dion is getting aid at a migrant transit center run by Roman Catholic Church charities in the southern port of Cadiz. His girlfriend is down the coast. Together, they traveled for five months overland through West Africa until they reached Morocco, and crossed to Spain, where he immediately called his mom back home.

"She was really happy that I made it. She asked what I wanted to do next. I told her I loved France and I wanted to go there, so she started to get in touch with relatives there. She has a nephew there. He will accommodate us, we will ask for refuge there, life will be easier for us there," said Dion.

But a challenge for Dion and other migrants is the increasingly strict regulations that allow one EU member state, like Germany, to return a migrant to another, such as Spain, if they can prove that's where the migrant first entered Europe.

"They should accept migrants in Europe. They don't realize what we suffer in our countries with police abuse, our politicians making false promises all the time. We feel better in Europe," said Dion.

And he's not discouraged that many in Europe reject migrants.

"In the beginning people will maybe not accept it. But little by little after a few weeks they will accept it and it will be easier to find a place to stay and a job. I will take care of that," said Dion

He and his girlfriend headed north to Paris soon after this interview, risking it all, like other migrants, while Europe tries to calculate its own risk from immigration.