More Than 2,000 Migrants Cross Into Ceuta in 10 Days as Madrid Rejects Emergency Request
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Updated · Fox News · Jul 31
More Than 2,000 Migrants Cross Into Ceuta in 10 Days as Madrid Rejects Emergency Request
3 articles · Updated · Fox News · Jul 31
Summary
More than 2,000 migrants entered Spain's North African enclave of Ceuta over the past 10 days, with large groups crossing on foot and by sea after overwhelming border controls.
Ceuta's government called the surge a peak of "particular intensity" and formally asked Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez to declare a national emergency, but Madrid said migration flows do not qualify under civil protection rules.
Sánchez said Spain was mobilizing resources and working with Moroccan and international authorities to restore normalcy, while videos showed migrants running through Ceuta's streets and coming ashore around border fences.
The crossings came after Sánchez's government launched an "extraordinary regularization" program this year for undocumented migrants already in Spain, a policy critics call amnesty but the government says supports economic integration.