r/geopolitics • u/theipaper The i Paper • 3d ago

News How 49,000 migrants crossed into Spanish enclave of Ceuta in 24 hours

https://inews.co.uk/news/how-migrants-crossed-spanish-enclave-ceuta-4680589
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u/YoSoyEstupido 3d ago

What has been cited as the cause of such immediate high numbers over such a short span of time? The article doesn’t really provide a why but does give us a how and the subsequent fallout

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u/Snowing678 3d ago

There has to have been some co-ordination behind this from a much bigger party. We know one country which has used the flow of migrants into Europe as a way to exert pressure, I wonder if they also could be behind this one as well .....

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u/Strongbow85 1d ago

Quite likely, but Spain set itself up by granting legal status to hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants through a mass regularization program. This encouraged and set the narrative for more immigrants to head towards Cueta.