Spain has deployed troops after record numbers of migrants entered its enclave of Ceuta from neighbouring Morocco.

At least 6,000 people reached Ceuta in a single day, Spanish officials say.

They say the migrants - who include about 1,500 minors - either swam around the border fences that jut out into the sea or walked across at low tide.

Spain's Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez has vowed to restore order. Spain says it has already sent some 2,700 migrants back - but not the minors.

Most of the migrants are said to be from Morocco.

The Spanish forces troops have been deployed to the beach to help border police at Ceuta's main entry point - Tarajal, on the enclave's south side.

Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska said 200 troops, plus 200 extra police were going to assist Ceuta's normal 1,100-strong border force. The enclave has some 80,000 inhabitants.

Spain's Ceuta and Melilla enclaves have become magnets for African migrants.



https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-57156320

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9591093/The-moment-6-000-migrants-storm-Spanish-enclave-Morocco-SWIMMING-border-fence.html

Backward reasoning. Imagine the productive output in any engagements if 6000 persons agree to work together in any productivity engagement.

Fish Farming

Vegetable Farming

Livestock Breeding

Etc.


As a matter of fact, any company that has 6000 workers on the global indexing would have massive output.


If just the will to be together, collaborate and work together were there. Alas! Humans, with under-developed monkey brains

On Tuesday, Moroccan security forces at Fnideq, the adjacent town to Ceuta, fired tear gas to disperse a large crowd of migrants at the border fence, AFP news agency reported.

Mr Sánchez has cancelled a trip to Paris - he was to attend a French-led summit on financial aid for Africa. Instead, he is focusing on the Ceuta crisis, and he promised "maximum firmness" in restoring normality to the enclave.

He has received support from senior EU officials, with European Council President Charles Michel tweeting: "Spain's borders are the European Union's borders."

EU Commissioner for Home Affairs Ylva Johansson described the number of arrivals in Ceuta as "unprecedented" and "worrying", noting that "a big number of them [are] children".

At the other enclave, Melilla, 86 sub-Saharan Africans entered on Tuesday via its southern jetty, which marks the border with Morocco.

Melilla has a formidable border fence, and several hundred more migrants were blocked by security forces, Spain's Efe news agency reports.

Spanish officials quoted by Efe said Moroccan guards had helped the Spanish forces in Melilla. Some migrants threw stones at the Spanish forces, they said.

Spanish media said it was different in Ceuta, where Moroccan border guards stood by and watched as migrants took to the sea to try to reach the enclave.

Most of the migrants were said to be young men, but there were also several families. Many had used inflatable rings and rubber dinghies.

They started arriving in Ceuta at 02:00 (midnight GMT) on Monday, but the number soared during the day. At least one died during the crossing.

Last month, more than 100 migrants arrived at Ceuta's Tarajal entry point. Most were sent back, except about 30 minors whose ages were confirmed by medical tests.

Since the 17th Century both Ceuta and Melilla have been under Spanish rule, though they are long claimed by Morocco. The port cities now form the EU's only land border with Africa. They have semi-autonomous status, like some regions of mainland Spain.

The influx comes amid renewed tension over Western Sahara, a territory occupied by Spain until 1975, when Morocco annexed it. Since then it has been disputed between Morocco and the indigenous Sahrawi people, led by the Polisario Front.

Souring of ties over Western Sahara

In April, Spain allowed Sahrawi leader Brahim Ghali, 73, to be treated in hospital for Covid-19, reportedly in Logroño. He leads the Polisario Front, fighting for Western Saharan sovereignty against the claims of Morocco. The Moroccan government responded angrily and warned Spain that harbouring Mr Ghali would bring "consequences".

Spanish Foreign Minister Arancha González said she was not aware of Morocco using the border issue to exert political pressure. But many see Monday's events, when Moroccan border guards appeared not to stop migrants from crossing, as evidence of a reprisal.

Such difficulties are likely to complicate the two neighbours' normally tight co-operation on the migrant issue. However, Spain says it has already repatriated about half of the migrants, following talks with Morocco.

The vast majority of those who reached Ceuta were Moroccan. Local police have clamped down on sub-Saharan migrants in northern Morocco in recent years, meaning they have sought other routes to Spain, such as across the Atlantic to the Canary Islands.
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The EU border force Frontex reports that illegal migration to Spain's Canary Islands - off the Moroccan coast - has surged this year.

In most cases sub-Saharan Africans make perilous journeys in rickety boats and drowning is common.

However, the overall number of undocumented migrants reaching Europe so far this year remains far below the levels seen in 2015-2016.

Men dey try o...Some dey even carry leg cross Sahara in an attempt to enter Europe.


If only the people that control the affairs of this continent were smart enough, African would have been the paradise we pray for but corruption has eaten deep into the marrows of the greedy leaders.
It is only in this continent that someone will cling to power for decades and loot to high heavens.
As far as gross corruption remains the norm in Africa, people will keep trying to escape this jungle by any possible means in search of a better life.

Smh

Look at how the soldiers are treating them with love,and even feeding them water.

But in Nigeria here,those animals in uniform would have beating some to death,shot some,and arrested many by now.

Nigeria security agents are the most babaric set of devils anyone can imagine

Morocco's Foreign Ministry has said Madrid's move to assist Brahim Ghali, head of the Polisario Front, was 'inconsistent with the spirit of partnership and good neighborliness' and vowed there would be 'consequences.'

Vivas, Ceuta's conservative regional president, said residents were in a state of 'anguish, concern and fear' and 60% of the city's children had not shown up for school on Tuesday. He also linked the sudden mass arrival to Spain's compassionate assistance to Ghali.

The Spanish government itself, however, officially rejects the notion that Morocco is punishing Spain for a humanitarian move.

'I cannot envisage that putting the lives of young people and minors at risk is in response to a humanitarian issue,' Foreign Minister Arancha Gonzalez Laya said.

The prime minister appeared on live television to announce he would visit Ceuta and that his top priority was to ensure safety in the city 'in the face of any challenge, any eventuality and under any circumstance.'

Over the decades, Spain has built a close relationship with Morocco to crack down on illegal border crossings but also to increase economic exchanges and fight extremism. Sanchez on Tuesday avoided any direct criticism to Rabat in his speech.

'To be effective,' he said, 'that cooperation must always be based on respect - respect for the shared border.'

Sanchez was also facing a political storm at home, with the far-right Vox party blaming the migration crisis on the government's 'inaction' and sending its leader on a quick visit to Ceuta.

Many African migrants regard Ceuta and nearby Melilla, another Spanish territory, as a gateway into Europe. In 2020, 2,228 chose to cross into the two enclaves by sea or land, often risking injuries or death.

On Tuesday, another 80 African migrants readed Melilla, 350 kilometers (218 miles) east of Ceuta, by jumping over the enclave's double fence.

Morocco scored a diplomatic victory last year when the previous U.S. administration under Donald Trump recognized Rabat's sovereignty over Western Sahara, paving the way for normalizing relations between Israel and Morocco.

Pierocash:
Look at how the soldiers are treating them with love,and even feeding them water.

But in Nigeria here,those animals in uniform would have beating some to death,shot some,and arrested many by now.

Nigeria security agents are the most babaric set of devils anyone can imagine

That is the difference between civilised people and 16th century people.

Deports them all

Those Black Moroccans are Nigerians

For some of the Moroccans it looks like they are just doing it for fun.

illicit:
Those Black Moroccans are Nigerians

False; try again mouthbreather

Pierocash:
Look at how the soldiers are treating them with love,and even feeding them water.

But in Nigeria here,those animals in uniform would have beating some to death,shot some,and arrested many by now.

Nigeria security agents are the most babaric set of devils anyone can imagine

Kingosytex:




That is the difference between civilised people and 16th century people.

Here's two double Tampon XLs for both of you Queens.

Islam A bad