Aitor Hernandez-Morales
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first heard Jul 2026
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The border guards on the Moroccan side disappeared.
And what we got later on were reports that Moroccan authorities had actually encouraged people to go over, not even necessarily to migrate, but essentially
go over and check out Ceuta.
There were even reports that they had organized buses to take schoolchildren over to the city, very much just in an effort to flood the city with migrants and create a very uncomfortable situation for Spanish authorities.
Again, we're still trying to figure out if that's what's happened this time around, but it is remarkable that within 24 hours of the initial surge of migrants, Spanish authorities reported that people were returning at a rate of around 125 people a minute.
It certainly doesn't sound like people who were looking for a long-term exodus, but rather
more of a short-term excursion almost.
It's a very, very strange situation.
Yeah, it's exactly that.
Look, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has made a career of molding himself into this kind of global progressive figure.
As you no doubt recall, he's really hit back against Donald Trump at the war in Iran and forbidden American planes from using Spanish bases to attack.
And the other thing that he's really stood out for in Europe is that he is actually a very enthusiastic defender of migration.
And earlier this year, he announced a government scheme to grant legal status to what ended up being 1.2 million unauthorized migrants already living in Spain.
And Sanchez's argument is that Spain is undergoing a demographic collapse, essentially, and that it needs these people who are already there taking care of the elderly, working in shops, etc.,
Now, what was really remarkable about the situation in Ceuta is that what we saw were EU leaders immediately linking the crisis in Ceuta to that legalization scheme that I mentioned.
And these two things could not be more different.
To qualify for this legalization scheme, for starters, you would have had to already been living in Spain at the beginning of this year.
The deadline for applications ended back in June.
In other words, none of the people who crossed over would have even been eligible for this regularization.
And yet, exactly as you were mentioning, leaders like Italy's prime minister, Giorgio Maloney, later the Finnish interior minister, even Sweden's prime minister, and of course, Mette Frederiksen, the prime minister of Denmark, who was notably part of the
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