This was formerly published as the second links post on 5th August, but was deleted due to "hate speech". I am splitting it up so I can find the offending text.
pagliacci the hated on X - "Spanish leftards like Sanchez are in an amazing ideological predicament rn because they know what is happening in Ceuta isn’t organic, but at the same time they’re supposed to be unconditionally pro-migrant. So they’re in zugzwang. If they try to stop this, they’re admitting that migrants can be sent as political weapons, which is effectively an admission that the “right wing conspiracy theories” they hate so much were correct, and that their universal asylum policy is retarded. But if they accept the migrants, Ceuta is going to collapse and the right is going to have a massive step-up politically. No good move."
Rihards Kols on X - "The border breach at Ceuta is severe. It is useful to remember that the exclave maintains double border checks before the European mainland. The true vulnerability exposed today is political. Spain’s domestic push for the mass regularisation of illegal migrants creates an undeniable pull factor. Judicial rulings blocking expedited returns multiply the threat. The Sánchez government is making unilateral choices that systematically undercut collective European security. You cannot fracture the external perimeter in the south and expect European stability. Latvia guards the EU’s eastern external border - we know this, and the cost of deterrence. The current migration situation does not allow for any national exceptionalism in applying our rules. Spain will soon benefit from the EU Migration Pact’s solidarity mechanism as a country under 'migratory pressure' - receiving money, support, or relocations. Rewarding a state that simultaneously legalises mass illegal migration is a farce. European solidarity requires strict national responsibility."
GeoInsider on X - "There is another possible angle worth considering: Just days before the Ceuta crisis, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez traveled to Algeria to restore diplomatic and economic relations after four years of tensions. The visit marked a major reset in Spain-Algeria relations after years of strained ties. During the visit, Sánchez met with Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune and senior government officials. Both countries reaffirmed Algeria as one of Spain's principal strategic partners, discussed expanding energy cooperation, increasing Spanish investment, strengthening trade, coordinating on migration, and agreed to hold a new high-level bilateral summit later this year to deepen cooperation further. Historically, when Spain has taken actions that Morocco views as contrary to its interests over Western Sahara, relations have at times deteriorated sharply. The clearest example came in 2021, when Spain allowed Polisario leader Brahim Ghali to receive medical treatment. Morocco strongly protested, recalled its ambassador, and during the ensuing diplomatic crisis, a mass migration event into Ceuta followed. To understand why this matters, you have to understand the Western Sahara dispute. Morocco considers Western Sahara an integral part of its territory and has proposed an autonomy plan under Moroccan sovereignty. The Polisario Front, backed primarily by Algeria, seeks independence for Western Sahara and has proclaimed the self-declared Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic. This is why Morocco pays such close attention to Spain's relationship with both Algeria and the Polisario Front. Spain is the former colonial power in Western Sahara and remains one of the most influential European countries involved in the dispute. When Madrid takes steps that Rabat interprets as favoring Algeria or Polisario as happened with the Ghali case in 2021 it has, in the past, led to severe diplomatic crises. There is another important point that is often overlooked. Morocco has never recognized Spanish sovereignty over Ceuta and Melilla. To this day, Rabat officially considers both cities to be Moroccan territory under Spanish administration. While Morocco has generally pursued its claims through diplomatic channels, the status of Ceuta and Melilla remains one of the most sensitive issues in Spain–Morocco relations. Does this mean Sánchez's visit to Algeria caused the current migration crisis? No, there is currently no public evidence to support that conclusion. However, given the events of 2021, Morocco's longstanding rivalry with Algeria, the central importance of Western Sahara in Moroccan foreign policy, and Morocco's official claim over Ceuta and Melilla, it is another plausible angle worth considering as events continue to unfold. It should be treated as a possibility based on historical precedent, not as an established explanation."
Octavian on X - "The fact that tens of thousands of Moroccans instantly ran to Ceuta in the hopes they could escape Morocco reminds me of this quote by Algerian president Boumediene: "No quantity of atom bombs could stem the tide of billions… who will someday leave the poor southern part of the world to erupt into the relatively accessible spaces of the rich Northern Hemisphere looking for survival." Don't get me wrong, it's on us to protect our borders and to stem the tide. But the Roman Empire fell in a fairly similar way, where the Romans eventually just gave up. It's simply dangerous that the pressure is this intense for such a long time. You just need a couple more Pedro Sanchez governments and we'll face the same fate as the Romans. We do have to think about how to give North Africans a future so they don't run to their deaths trying to get to Europe, not for the sake of North Africans but for our sake to relieve not only the physical pressure but also the psychological one."
It's weird how non-Western countries don't face this problem
Rupa Subramanya on X - "49,000 illegal migrants just crossed into the Spanish city of Ceuta, population roughly 84,000. That’s an influx equivalent to nearly 60% of the city’s entire population in just 24 hours. This is an extraordinary demographic transformation.
Ceuta is currently: 60% Catholic and 37% Muslim 50.4% male and 49.6% female
If all 49,000 migrants are Muslim and men and that's a reasonable assumption to make going by the images, and were allowed to remain, the religious composition would almost exactly reverse:
-60% Muslim and 38% Catholic
-69% male and 31% female
If this alarms you, let me remind you that this is simply the illegal version of the demographic transformation western democracies especially Canada pursued legally: millions admitted in just a few years, and in Canada's case, large numbers of low-skilled, uneducated, working-age men, many we're now discovering are criminals, originating mostly from Punjab and Haryana in India. If you're pro-immigration, this is what legal mass immigration looks like when it happens at extraordinary scale and speed. Canada accomplished its own version of it in remarkably little time."
Mariana Hernandez | Facebook - "Your timeline is about to be full of videos of Moroccans "invading Spain" with captions like "this is what happens when you vote socialist" and I need you to pause before you share that garbage. Ceuta is not in Spain. It's not in Europe. It is physically, geographically, on the continent of Africa. On Moroccan soil. Taken from Morocco in 1415 — before Columbus, before the Inquisition, before Spain even existed as a unified country. Spain has a colony in Africa in 2026 and nobody wants to call it that. "This is what happens when you vote socialist." No. This is what happens when you colonize a piece of another continent and hold it for 600 years and then act shocked when people from that continent walk into it. The Portuguese crown took Ceuta in 1415. Spain inherited it in 1668. And never left. So when you see Moroccans swimming around a fence to set foot on *their own continent* and someone captions it "Muslim invasion" — the irony is so thick you could build a border wall out of it. About 2,000 people crossed into Ceuta in the last ten days. Spain's far right is foaming. American accounts are already repackaging the footage for people who will never google where Ceuta actually is. You want to know what actually triggered this? Spain's own Supreme Court just ruled that migrants intercepted at sea near Ceuta can't be sent back to Morocco. Not socialism. Not open borders. A judicial ruling by Spain's own judiciary. But that doesn't fit in a rage-bait caption, does it? Morocco has claimed Ceuta for decades. The only reason there's an EU border there at all isn't geography — it's because a European empire took a piece of Africa and never gave it back. And now they're mad that Africans keep showing up to it. "This is what happens when you vote socialist." No. This is what happens when you never decolonize."
Comments: "I guess that means Constantinople doesn't belong to Turkey because they invaded Europe and it's an Asian Turkish colony in Europe? "
"I guess you missed what happened in Spain for 800 years. This is a tiny part of their former colonizer."
Matt Van Swol on X - " #BREAKING: The Moroccan Muslims who have invaded the small Spanish city of Ceuta are now BREAKING INTO STORES by the HUNDREDS. Police are completely overwhelmed. Migrants can be seen running from one store to the next, grabbing items and running. WHERE IS THE MILITARY?!!!!!"
What would Spain do without all these doctors and engineers (or "doctors and nurses, engineers and computer scientists")?
Dolors Montserrat on X - "Ceuta is paying the price for the Spanish Government’s massive regularisation, the failure to enforce EU return rules and its repeated delays in implementing the Migration Pact. Sánchez has lost control of Spain’s external border and his failure is now a European problem. Europe cannot tolerate a government that fails to protect an external EU border and expects the rest of Europe to bear the consequences."
Zineb Riboua on X - "The moment someone reaches Ceuta, they come under EU asylum rules and may become eligible for regularization programs such as the one recently introduced by the Sánchez government. The Spanish Supreme Court has also ruled that migrants who arrive by swimming cannot be sent back. Everyone warned how absurd it is."
David Santos on X (Translated from Spanish) - "A Moroccan who entered Ceuta illegally claims he fled Morocco because he's linked to a death, and he has problems with both the police and dangerous individuals. Spain is a shithole."
If Spain sends him back and he gets killed or executed, Spain will have murdered him (as per Nixon Giovanni Pérez Paz and Glendy Marisol González de la Cruz and ICE)
Zineb Riboua on X - "Morocco maintains functioning schools, universities, hospitals, a working economy free from war and famine in a very unstable region, has different projects, and today there are more opportunities than ever. However, in Morocco, criminal punishment is severe. & those who violate Moroccan law exploit a structural advantage because Sanchez’ permissive immigration policy and willingness to invoke human rights rhetoric to shield criminals provide sanctuary to them. Moroccan authorities cannot pursue offenders across the border into Spanish territory or Ceuta and whenever it did it created a scandal one way or another, these criminals know this and leverage this gap to the maximum."
Left wingers think all third world countries are shitholes, so you need to let everyone from those countries into the West, or you lack "empathy" and are a terrible human being
Rawan Osman | Facebook - "In the past 24 hours, ten of thousands of migrants — mainly Moroccan nationals, confirmed by AP — poured across the border into Spain's exclave of Ceuta. Ceuta is politically, administratively, and officially Spanish territory — which means it's the EU. Spain now faces a choice it has avoided for decades: settle the sovereignty question for real, or accept that anyone who reaches Ceuta's shores has, in every legal sense, reached mainland Europe. Here's one "solution": just give Ceuta to Morocco. Problem solved, right? I am looking forward to watching how virtue-signaling Sanchez will solve this one. As a German citizen and European taxpayer, here are my thoughts. I came to Europe in 2011, a divorced woman escaping the Arab world. I chose the conservative south of Germany because I wanted my son raised in a democracy, properly educated, able to give back to humanity. In 2015, when Merkel opened Germany's gates to Syrian refugees, she invited in mostly men — the very men I had spent my life running from. My son came home from the pool one day and told me police had been called after a Syrian teenager groped a German girl in broad daylight, even after she told him in German and English to stop. I had to explain to my seven-year-old why men behave this way where I grew up. Getting my visa was brutally hard, as if the process was designed to discourage people like me. But I did it. I arrived alone, with a child — not with friends "conquering the land." I didn't speak the language. I was ridiculed, sometimes dismissed by people who wouldn't even try English. I learned German, opened a business, worked 12–16 hour days. Then my son was bullied for years — told we lived off other people's taxes. I was paying taxes. I was sending him to one of the most expensive schools in Germany. Every mistake a refugee made, we paid for too. I fought to build a life here so my son could live safely. Watching wave after wave of illegal migration flood this continent, I sometimes feel like I wasted my life running from the very ideology I thought I'd escaped — because it followed me here. What happened is part of an ideological invasion, and we have to fight it because we have no choice. This won't leave us alone. #spain #europe"
Pedro Sanchez holidays as migrants refuse to leave Ceuta
A complacent EU is to blame for the chaos at Ceuta - "Whether the illegal immigrants have gone back is immaterial. As Joshua Treviño, an American analyst, has pointed out, Morocco has shown it has the capability to do this if it wishes. Should Spain displease it again, flooding Ceuta with almost as many illegal immigrants as there are residents is now an option. This is a long-held tactic: in 1975, Morocco marched a human wave of 350,000 people into the Western Sahara, which was then ruled by the Spanish. This coincided with the death of General Franco, and so the Spanish army was ordered not to fire. The land was given up to Morocco the next year... The EU is a powerful bloc, yet it finds itself at the mercy of Morocco because human rights laws undermine border controls. Without those controls, freedom of movement under Schengen becomes a liability rather than a benefit. Yet instead of leading, the EU merely convenes meetings. The EU’s complacency has seen its share of the global economy shrink and the continent miss out on the frontier of AI. If it fails to secure Europe’s borders, then the whole project may well collapse, as frustrated voters demand the security that European leaders refuse to deliver. Ceuta was a test of the EU’s ability to respond and it failed."
