About 60k migrants arrive in Ceuta in 24 hours, Spanish territory's leader says (bbc.com)

Moroccan government is doing this on purpose and they are not probably the only country doing it.

https://x.com/visegrad24/status/2082842354927456322

This article seems very one-sided, as do many others I looked through. The 'why' of people trying to cross seems to be totally ignored.

Very low quality sources say things like:

- The police are shipping people to the border

- These are all criminals that the police are letting get away so they don't have to deal with them

- People are fleeing the absolute monarchy and poor economic conditions

If anyone has any high quality sources about the above please post them!

On some of the videos it looked like a lot of the people came just in swim shorts and without a T-shirt. I can imagine if I was a teenager at the border and an opportunity came to check out Ceuta, I would also jump in. Fits also with the fact that about half of the people who crossed the border have already returned.

Weird how these streams of immigrants are always young men, and almost never families or groups of women and children actually fleeing some real war or oppression.

Those images and videos are fuel to get a fascist elected. There must be something coordinated for that many at once.

Seems like this map example I made a few weeks ago is pretty timely https://mapjson.com/examples/gibraltar.html

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And they left again.

And at least 48K returned back

"Some 48,000 of the roughly 50,000 people who crossed illegally into Ceuta since early Friday have already been returned to Morocco, as Madrid condemned the mass crossing as an "attack" on its sovereignty."

https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2026/07/31/around-25000-m...

much ado about nothing

"Spains PM blames trafficers" The spanish government and security services had well over a day to do something before the operation was launched, instead they have chosen to do nothing.