Libs of TikTok on X - "So lemme get this straight… Spain passes mass amnesty plan for hundreds of thousands of migrants Morocco then pardons nearly 3,000 criminals including terrorists And days later hundreds of Moroccan men INVADE Spain…? This is how a Western civilized country gets destroyed."
Damn Israel!
PeterSweden on X - "The Swedish Green Party has now expressed SUPPORT for the almost 50.000 people that arrived in Ceuta the last day. They are now accusing the Swedish government for "non existent empathy" after announcing that Sweden won't accept them into the country. The Green Party is likely to be part of the next Swedish government according to the polls."
PeterSweden on X - "IT BEGINS Finland is now supporting Italy in calling for possibly SUSPENDING Schengen with Spain and introduce border controls."
Sanchez condemns ‘selfish’ EU in row over Ceuta migrant chaos - "Pedro Sánchez has criticised “selfish” EU leaders after 22 European prime ministers and presidents attacked him for the sudden migrant surge in Ceuta... They singled out Mr Sánchez’s migrant amnesty for criticism. In early July, some 609,737 of the 1.17 million migrants in Spain who applied for legal status obtained temporary work permits, making it the largest regularisation of black market workers in European history... Mr Sánchez has been an outlier in the EU because he is pro-immigration, anti-Israel and one of the few Left-wing leaders in the bloc... France tightened checks on its Spanish border and said it would increase its police presence fivefold to 334 officers and gendarmes by Saturday."
Left wingers cannot take personal responsibility
Meme - "It said, Spain has opened the door."
_didier.neza: "This Illegal Moroccan Migrant in Ceuta said it clearly:“The door was announced for us to come. We were promised a good life in Spain.”They received messages on social media telling them the borders were open. Thousands believed it and rushed in.This is not accidental. The EU has opened its borders on purpose. It is globalists—not Islamists—who hold the real power behind this. Globalism has far more reach and influence than radical Islam. These open-border policies are part of a deliberate globalist agenda to reshape nations.At New Africa Network, our message is the opposite. We are calling Africans to stay and rebuild. We want Africans to live free, safe, and fulfilled in Africa; with real security, real opportunity, and real financial freedom.Whether a man is Muslim or not, we stand against every form of extremism, especially Islamic extremism and jihadism. Our mission is to help every African build a better life right here on African soil.This is why I do not believe in an Islamic Antichrist or an Islamic beast system. The Antichrist will rise through the globalist system; not through Islam. Globalism, not radical Islam, is the greater threat to nations and to the church.Africa does not need empty promises from Europe. Africa needs Africans who will rise and rebuild.This is the work of New Africa Network.@newafricanetwork#NewAfricaNetwork #LetMyPeopleGo"
David Bernstein on X - "So Spain has killed 67 Moroccans breaching its border, all civilians. 67 a days for three years would be 73,365 people or approximately how many Gazans Hamas alleges has been killed in the war, including combatants. So Spain has the same daily death toll as the Gaza war, except that every single person they killed was a civilian, there was no precipitating massacre, they aren't at war, and there is no threat from the likes of Iran and Hezbollah looming over them."
The claim is that this doesn't count because Spain didn't actively kill them. Yet, when left wingers throw around death tolls due to the Iraq war, they rely on projection populations if the war hadn't happened and compare them to actual populations, then proclaim that the US killed that many people
Oli London on X - "Hollywood actor Javier Bardem shares Instagram post blaming ISRAEL for 50,000 Moroccan migrant men storming into Spanish territory. “Spain has been Europe’s loudest voice against Israeli and US war crimes in Palestine, Lebanon and Iran.” The actor reposted an Instagram post from another user which claimed Israel “benefits” from a “destabilized Spain.” “We don’t know who engineered this crisis, but we know who benefits from a weakened, destabilised Spain: Israel, and the Western far right eager to turn migration into a weapon against Muslims.”"
Terrorism supporters are stupid, hateful and can't take responsibility for their own idiocy
It's interesting. Left wingers are usually for open borders, but have a decidedly more mixed reaction to the Ceuta invasion. Maybe because they blame Israel.
Charlie Weimers MEP 🇸🇪 on X - "Ceuta shows what happens when borders are abandoned.
Thousands of illegal migrants are right now storming into Ceuta. This is no coincidence. It is the direct result of Spain’s amnesty policy and a court ruling that makes returns more difficult. The social democratic government in Spain has “regularised” hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants. Almost 1.2 million applied. Over 600,000 have already received temporary permits. At the same time, the Spanish Supreme Court has banned swift pushbacks of those arriving by sea. The smugglers exploited this immediately. The result was a veritable invasion across the border. I have been to Ceuta myself and seen the weak border protection with my own eyes. I have seen how thin it is and how quickly the city can be overwhelmed. This is not theory. It is reality. When a Member State creates strong pull factors through amnesties and obstacles to removals and deportations, the rest of Europe must be able to act. Otherwise both security and trust between the states collapse. This time we have sharp tools. The Return Regulation, which I have helped drive forward, provides longer detention periods, mutual recognition of return decisions, tougher entry bans and return hubs. It replaces the old, toothless system. Now the legal basis exists to send back the illegal immigrants who stormed the border. It is time to use the new tools. Everyone who has illegally forced their way into Ceuta and has no right to stay must be returned – quickly, consistently and without exception. No more excuses. No more amnesties that reward illegal immigration. Border control is not extremism. It is survival. Either we take back control – or we lose it.
Ps. I see some gleeful right-wing debaters urging Spain to “decolonise” Ceuta and Melilla as a response to the Sánchez government’s militant policy towards Israel. Consider this: in these cities, which have been European for five hundred years, people live who now fear for their existence and their lives. We already see illegal migrants trying to occupy private homes. A majority in Ceuta votes for the right and does not support Pedro Sánchez in any way."
AwakenedOutlaw⚒️ on X - "“The immigrants coming to Ceuta are women and children, many of them malnourished” ~ Pedro Sánchez, Prime Minister of Spain. Ok, sure they are. BTW, this is a coordinated invasion being perpetrated by Morocco, as can be seen here."
The Spanish Left have themselves to blame for this migrant invasion - "“Long live Spain,” shouted one of the thousands of Moroccans who had forced their way into Ceuta. He didn’t seem aware of it, but he and his fellow migrants have destroyed the country’s myth of positive mass immigration. “Throughout history, migration has been one of the great engines of national development.” These were the words of Pedro Sánchez, the Spanish prime minister, a few years ago. Now his government is in crisis after it lost control during an invasion of its territory... The initial story was that a July 8 legal decision, which stopped the Spanish authorities from immediately deporting those who swam over the border, had caused the collapse of the frontier. Government sources believe that people-trafficking groups used it to create a snowball effect of people thinking they could make it into Ceuta and Europe... civil guard sources told El Mundo that “Morocco wasn’t fooling anyone” and that thousands of young Moroccans had been arriving near the border zone from all over the country. As the centre-Left newspaper El País reported, such a large entry of people would have been impossible without the complicity of the Moroccan authorities. The last time a similar incident happened was in 2021, when 15,000 stormed the border. Then it was an organised assault by the Moroccan government after Spain protected of one of the militant leaders that still contest Morocco’s annexation of Western Sahara in the 1970s. In return for stopping the flow and taking back those who had broken in, Spain agreed to support Morocco’s claim to what had once been a Spanish colony. The majority were deported within 10 days, and only legal disputes over the status of children caused the process to last longer. Sánchez’s great mistake is not only being soft on immigration, but being soft on Morocco. The images that went viral across social media were matched by government inaction. Only 15 police officers and 40 Civil Guard officers were manning the border, even as hundreds started crossing into the city days earlier. After control had been lost, Sánchez’s government still sought to downplay the crisis, failing to declare a national emergency and only calling in the army eight hours after Ceuta’s leader had begged for help... Sánchez is now dealing with the occupation of part of his country by tens of thousands of young, military-aged men. When he said that his nation had to choose between being “an open, rich country or a closed, poor one”; he clearly failed to envision anarchy. While it is worth separating the crisis in Ceuta from his broader strategy of bringing in millions of Latin Americans, in this case the government is worse than complicit: it is weak. Across the spectrum of Spanish politics, every significant party from right to left has condemned what is effectively an invasion. The Left is blaming the border breach on an Israeli-American-Moroccan pact to punish Spain for its pro-Gaza policy, while the right sees it as the start of an attempted annexation of Ceuta. The Sánchez government’s casual promotion of mass immigration, and its treatment of the nation’s frontiers, have left it prey to not only the Moroccan government but also large numbers of idle young North Africans. This has already led to 18 deaths among those trying to cross, and it is hard not to believe that the open rhetoric of Spain’s government has encouraged some of those crossing. El Mundo reported one Moroccan telling a civil guard officer: “I want to be Spanish like you.” Sánchez’s government was already at the end of its cycle, incapable of passing legislation and buffeted by damaging corruption cases. The historic events in Ceuta, which are still ongoing, have, however, consigned a government “which showed the way on low skilled immigration” to what was once called the dustbin of history. Ceuta tells a different story."
One left wing cope is that Ceuta isn't contiguous with mainland Spain, so it's not Spain. By this logic, if the US invades the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador isn't allowed to complain
The crisis in Ceuta threatens the very fabric of the EU - "The Spanish government also bears much of the blame. Ceuta faces regular attempts by illegal immigrants to enter, yet as Jack Davey has pointed out in these pages, there were only 55 officers guarding the border and it took the government precious hours to call in the military. Considering the scale of the crowds (see the video below) which crossed the border, there should have also been intelligence warnings that something was going on... It seems highly unlikely that such large numbers of illegal immigrants could cross again without the tacit acceptance of the Moroccans. Morocco has claimed since independence in 1956 that Ceuta should be part of their territory. Using illegal migration flows to breach the city’s defences shows how migration can be used as a weapon. It’s similar to the sort of hybrid warfare used by Russia in Crimea, where their “little green men”, who were members of Russian special forces in unmarked uniforms, were able to seize the peninsula. The EU and Nato should take that threat seriously. Unfortunately the result so far has been unimpressive. EU officials have expressed concern but done little... Much like the refugee crisis of 2015, EU leaders seem caught off guard instead, unable to react as needed. That may prove their downfall."
Israel didn't respond well to October 7th, so terrorism supporters claim that's proof that they wanted it. Spain didn't respond well to the Ceuta invasion, and terrorism supporters claim Israel was behind it
Congratulations Ireland, you’re no longer Europe’s most ridiculous country - "There’s nothing like 50,000 migrants pouring over a border to burst a bubble of progressive indulgence. In a single afternoon, the dogma upon which Pedro Sánchez, Spain’s reviled prime minister, had built much of his liberal Eldorado – that migration and security can be managed by way of humanitarianism and European solidarity – collapsed under the dead weight of reality. In fact, the only major plank of his dogma that was left unchallenged was his gratuitous Israelophobia, and even that came jolly close. After all, Sánchez’s ability to side with Hamas over absolutely everything – this is a man who said he regretted not having nuclear weapons to “stop” Israel’s war of self-defence – would have looked rather silly if the Ceuta migrants had employed jihadi-style butchery, rape, mutilation and kidnap... the man could have been chewing a wasp for the sourness of his tone as he found himself talking in the language of sovereignty – territorial integrity, legal reforms, maritime barriers – rather than the post-national liberalism upon which he has so often relied for that warm and fuzzy tingle. From a British point of view, it was hard to avoid a frisson of schadenfreude. Two weeks ago, the achingly cosmopolitan Sánchez was crowing about the removal of la verja, the border barrier at Gibraltar, describing it as the fall of “the last wall in western Europe”. Fast-forward to Friday, and the Spanish leader, who remains mired in an awkward corruption scandal, found himself condemning a “violación de la integridad territorial de España” as if he had converted to conservatism. It was even more satisfying to see the beleaguered socialist bleating so impotently as Italy suspended the EU’s hallowed Schengen open borders agreement, backed by Finland, Denmark and Czechia... For some time, it has been too close to call. The great nation of Ireland has been steadily vandalising itself in recent years. Beginning in the Nineties, its elites replaced one overbearing moral establishment – the Catholic-nationalist order, which had long been beset by scandals – with another, namely a creed of Brussels fanaticism, the embrace of American-centric multinational capitalism and the determined imposition of tiresome progressive ideology. As ever, the most potent symbolism of this cultural shift is that of immigration. The Emerald Isle, a country of just five million, has experienced one of the fastest rates of population growth in the developed world in recent years, driven overwhelmingly by arrivals from overseas. Record numbers of new arrivals have coincided with housing shortages that predated the migration wave, leading to tent villages in Dublin, asylum seekers living in hotels and old office blocks, and GP surgeries and schools coming under immense strain. Violent riots flared in 2023, followed by arson attacks. The second emblem of national decline, of course, is hatred of Israel. Here, too, we find Ireland excelling; Jerusalem even announced the closure of its Dublin embassy in December 2024, citing the Irish government’s “extreme anti-Israel policies”. Anti-Semitism has a long history in Catholic Ireland. In James Joyce’s 1922 masterpiece Ulysses, Mr Deasy tells Stephen Dedalus: “Ireland, they say, has the honour of being the only country which never persecuted the Jews... Because she never let them in.” But its obsession with Israelophobia has reached new depths of petty depravity, from withdrawing from Eurovision in protest against Israel, to renaming Herzog Park in Dublin, which was named after the Chaim Herzog, Israel’s sixth president, who grew up there. All pretty bleak. Spain, however, has now claimed the booby prize. Not only has it also pulled out of Eurovision and indulged in gender recognition laws and amnesty programmes for undocumented migrants that would make Zack Polanski blush, but – as Ceuta has shown – its hard-left leader governs with such brazen hypocrisy that no other European country comes close."
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."
