Many of the sub-Saharan African migrants who reach 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 NGOs are losing no time in moving them closer to northern EU neighbours like France. The Red Cross assisted about 25 hundred 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. We visit with one man from West Africa, who doesn't want hurt to his chances for a better future. Al Goodman reports from Cadiz, Spain.

Meet Momoudou Dion, from West Africa. 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. 

Al: Hello how are you ? Momaoudou: I'm fine.  Al: Are you happy ? Momoudou: Yes, I'm good.  

But only to a point, he quickly adds, in his native French, to describe his predicament.

MOMADOU DION AFRICAN MIGRANT IN SPAIN "I left my country because my life was in danger so I don't want them to know where I am."

His is not a typical migrant's story. He says he came with his girlfriend, who's pregnant. Against her father's wishes.

MOMADOU DION AFRICAN MIGRANT IN SPAIN "Everything I will do will be in order to have a decent life next to my pregnant girlfriend."

A tale of migrant love in a European Union sharply divided over immigration, with various right-wing governments hardly enamored of migrants. He's 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.

MOMADOU DION AFRICAN MIGRANT IN SPAIN "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."

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

Another reason for him to stay in the shadows for a while.

MOMADOU DION AFRICAN MIGRANT IN SPAIN "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."

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.

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. Al Goodman, CGTN, Cadiz, Spain.