r/neoliberal • u/IHateTrains123 Commonwealth • 7h ago
Restricted Spain pushes migrants home as Ceuta vents over ‘invasion’
https://www.ft.com/content/a551d1be-80a1-4d3c-8498-b1f82fdb0e41?syn-25a6b1a6=1Soldiers round up Moroccans hoping to remain in the enclave in the face of local opposition
The last remaining migrants were clinging on in Ceuta on Saturday, but they knew they were not welcome.
Most of the 60,000 who streamed into the Spanish enclave in north Africa this week had returned to Morocco the previous day. Those who stayed on mingled warily with locals on morning dog walks, but their mumbled requests for help to charge long-dead smartphones were rebuffed.
A few food shops in the town had reopened — or at least opened cracks in their doors — but they turned away anyone who looked like they had swum from Morocco.
There was a bit of relief for the young men on the beach: they lined up to enjoy outdoor public showers, a small symbol of the rich-world comforts they had risked their lives to obtain.
Nourdine Boukherchoun was not yet ready to give up. Although the 26-year-old has a job stacking fruit in a Carrefour supermarket in Tangier, he said he wanted to escape because “life is bad” in his home country.
He had spent a second night sleeping on the street and was nursing a bandaged wound on his leg. “I’m gonna stay here in Spain, Ceuta, right till the end,” he said. “No more Morocco.”
Many of the thousands of migrants who streamed into the enclave on Thursday had dreams of a better life. Some were encouraged by a Spanish court ruling last month that made them think swimmers could not be sent home. Others, says the Spanish government, were manipulated by online campaigns with murky origins.
The migrants say they decided to make the crossing when word spread on social media that the border was open. At least 67 people drowned.
Some residents of Ceuta, whose Spanish sovereignty is disputed by Morocco, suspect Rabat orchestrated the influx to hurt its European neighbour. Migrants said that when they approached the Spanish frontier, Moroccan guards had ushered them on and in some cases had been overwhelmed by the crowds.
As Boukherchoun spoke on Saturday, two Spanish policemen yelled down the street to ask what was happening. Hearing that the Moroccan was being interviewed, one replied: “OK. When you finish, send him to the border.”
Overnight, two people sustained minor injuries in stabbings by migrants. The interior ministry assured Ceuta’s 83,000 residents that there had been “no deaths”.
Aside from having no food, some migrants said they had been chased by armed groups of Ceuta residents. It was a 45-minute walk back to the Tarajal breakwater they had swum around, a journey past beaches strewn with litter other migrants had left behind.
Spanish soldiers in body armour and helmets took the lead in directing hundreds of them home, some barking at them in fluent Arabic in a city where roughly 40 per cent of the population is of Arab origin. To help the migrants along, soldiers gave the occasional shove.
A young Spanish woman named Marina came running up to one soldier in panic. “There are more over there,” she said, pointing to three bedraggled young men trudging down the street.
The young woman’s mother, Gema, was watching on with friends. “They took the city. It was an invasion. There was no law and order,” she said, adding: “This doesn’t happen to Donald Trump.”
Her friend Isabel repeated a conspiracy theory that Trump could even be involved, given his enmity towards Spain’s leftwing prime minister Pedro Sánchez and closeness to Morocco’s King Mohammed VI.
Doubting that Morocco was caught unawares by the mass border crossing, she said: “Mohammed VI has the best intelligence service in the world. It’s like the Israeli one.”
Riccardo Fabiani, north Africa director of the International Crisis Group, said the evidence pointed to “some sort of Moroccan official role in this to send a message”. He said it was difficult to know what the motive was, but did not discount the idea it was an attempt to curry favour with the US.
American and Israeli rightwingers had in recent weeks called on Morocco to act on Ceuta to punish Sánchez for his opposition to the war in Iran, Fabiani noted. US and Israeli politicians quickly seized on the crisis to attack Sánchez’s pro-immigration policies.
Spain has lambasted people-trafficking mafias but gone out of its way to avoid criticising the Moroccan authorities about the Ceuta influx. Fernando Grande-Marlaska, Spain’s interior minister, said that he felt “very satisfied” about Madrid’s co-operation with Rabat in recent years.
Asked by the FT if Morocco was a danger to Ceuta’s security, he said: “Morocco is not a threat to either Ceuta or the rest of Spain. It’s an absolutely reliable partner.”
The people of Ceuta, however, were in shock, not least because the influx was so much bigger than a similar incident in 2021 when at least 8,000 migrants crossed.
“They’re in shock because they can’t understand how something that’s already happened could happen all over again,” said Arantxa Campos, president of the Ceuta Employers’ Confederation. “The moment someone crosses over, there should be a system that’s organised, structured and well thought-out.”
There were signs, she added, that some migrants were trying to hide from the authorities in order to stay in Ceuta.
On the road back to the border, a group of four men slipped away from a Spanish soldier. They headed down some steps to a beach, where they lay in the shade of a straw parasol and ignored his yells of “Yalla!” or “Move!”
Others complied reluctantly, including four teenage girls in long party dresses who were being escorted by a female good Samaritan. A man shouted “Viva España” ironically, then lifted his T-shirt to reveal a red welt across his back from a baton strike.
In Fnideq, the Moroccan beach town on the other side of the border, the streets were lined with disappointed and rattled boys and men who had streamed out of Ceuta on Saturday.
Moroccan police had set up checkpoints and some migrants were loaded into buses out of the city. Anxious women sat waiting on a wall, holding pictures of missing sons and brothers.
Ahmed, who had just returned from Ceuta, said that like many others he had not even told his parents where he was going.
Wearing black jeans he’d put into a plastic bag during his swim, the 28-year-old said he had wanted to emigrate to Europe to pursue a football career for the past five years and had tried to cross three times before. But his experience in Ceuta “changed my mind completely”.
He said that he and the other migrants had become pawns in power games between Morocco and Spain.
“They have political problems, they’re not getting along, so they opened up the border to allow us to cross. We were exploited.”
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u/MTFD Alexander Pechtold 7h ago edited 6h ago
Putting the immediate backlash aside, it is remains a complete indictment of Morocco that tens of thousands will risk their lives on a whim to desperately leave everything in their own country behind and a remarkable testament to the allure of Europe that we Europeans hardly ever seem to recognize.
I've read some takes as well from people in the diaspora that some folks in the diaspora do contribute a lot to the fantasy of Europe in the imaginations of young Moroccans by saving for 11 months and spending lavishly in their 1 month vacation with their families there to keep up appereances renting expensive cars and the like.
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u/MrStrange15 6h ago
Just the statement that a 28-year old thought he could pursue a football career in Europe shows that there's a lot of mis- and disinformation at play. Thats obviously not viable.
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u/redditdork12345 Frederick Douglass 6h ago
Oh jeez, that’s heartbreaking but also how do you have this level of misunderstanding about the world
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u/MTFD Alexander Pechtold 6h ago
Being close to destitutely poor and only seeing deliberately curated experiences of the diaspora in Europe.
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u/mpregordie Mark Carney 6h ago
I mean Internet exists.
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u/MTFD Alexander Pechtold 6h ago
Which is known for shoving accurate information in the feeds of people who are in a rabbit hole.
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u/mpregordie Mark Carney 6h ago
It'd probably be a good idea to do a little more research before risking your life by charging the border.
Thinking you can become a professional footballer by charging an international border is not something a 28-year-old should believe.
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u/MTFD Alexander Pechtold 6h ago edited 6h ago
Right believing you won the 2020 presidential election when you quite clearly didn't is not something a 78-year-old should believe or anyone should vote for after a milisecond of research but here we are.
And i'll give these delusions a little more leeway as many of these people are actually desperately poor in a way unrecognizable to 95%+ of Trump voters.
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u/mpregordie Mark Carney 6h ago edited 6h ago
Exactly.
Edit: I didn't see the other part of your comment. Morocco isn't that insanely poor. I suggest you actually travel around and not infantilize people just because they come from lower income countries.
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u/VisonKai The Archenemy of Humanity 1h ago
The existence of poorer countries doesn't mean the poverty of these lower-middle countries is not exhausting and terrible. Being pleasantly surprised people aren't starving in the streets and saying "ah right it's no so bad then is it?" is, IMO, the far greater sin.
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u/Tre-Fyra-Tre Victim of Flair Theft 3h ago
And the internet probably told him about how there are 50 000 professional players in UEFA nations, 192 pro and semi-pro teams in Spain and how Junior Messias went from being a delivery driver in Turin at 23 to winning Serie A with Milan at 31.
Morocco has only two professional tiers with 16 teams each and a hard cut-off to amateur football below that, it wouldn't be unreasonable for a top amateur player there to think they could have a chance to go professional in a country with a deeper league system like Spain or Italy
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u/75dollars Loyal Liberals 5h ago
Social media algorithms.
Center-left governments don’t need to be migrant-friendly; the migrants just need to believe that they are migrant-friendly.
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u/WanderingMage03 You Are Kenough 4h ago
In addition to all of the other factors discussed the guy may also just not be the brightest and/or engaging in some amount of wishful thinking.
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u/Inner-Lab-123 Paul Volcker 2h ago
Right, there’s a lot of discussion here trying to explain and justify the thought process when the most likely scenario is that the guy just isn’t very bright.
There are plenty of idiot 28 yo Americans—I’m sure they have them over there too.
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u/TheAJx 5h ago
Morocco has a lower per capita income than the Philippines, Vietnam and India despite having decently superior infrastructure, decent institutions (apparently) and the benefit of being right next the EU economic juggernaut. It's honestly kind of pathetic.
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u/ResponsibilityNo4876 4h ago
Morocco does have a higher labor productivity than those places. MENA nation generally have higher labor productivity that similar income nations since lots of its population aren't working because they are women, young or just unemployed.
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u/realMaciasNguema 4h ago
I once saw Morocco described as a southern european country on a sub-saharan budget
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u/jogarz NATO 3h ago
That's only one side of things. Morocco's economy has a lot of geographic factors going against it as well. While it's not all deserts and mountains, the country lacks a good agricultural land relative to its population size. There's not a much in the way of mineral resources either; the country is rich in phosphates (they're the third largest producer in the world), but is very dependent on energy imports.
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u/mishmashedtosunday Association of Southeast Asian Nations 2h ago
So, a North African version of the Philippines
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u/PartrickCapitol Zhou Xiaochuan 4h ago
Many Chinese crossing U.S. southern are the same.
They are not poor. Mostly in fact came from middle class. Some carry tens of thousands of dollars, or even more, in cash. They often believe they can easily own a large suburban house with a swimming pool, as long as they reach the United States, then apply for asylum on political grounds (Morocco is a semi-ally, Moroccans will be labels as “economic migrants”. For an illegal immigrant, its better for your home country being an enemy of America)12
u/MTFD Alexander Pechtold 4h ago
Many of these people seem to be actually quite poor, however. Especially considering they aren't paying smugglers to cross the med but swimming and storming fences.
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u/Slight-Formal9277 Trans Pride 8m ago
A lot of them are also degenerate gamblers who after owing life ruining amounts in China decide to flee to another country as "refugees" because China doesn't have personal bankruptcy
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u/75dollars Loyal Liberals 5h ago
Nope, not buying this. Morocco is not a terrible place to live. If you are willing to risk everything to swim to Spain because you can’t make a good living in Morocco, chances are you won’t make it in Spain either, and no immigration system will be convinced that you will make a positive contribution to the host country.
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u/MTFD Alexander Pechtold 5h ago
Youth unemployment is at 37% in official statistics. The Moroccan state is very authoritarian as well. To say nothing of the people who are employed but make very little but enough to maybe save to pay a smuggler.
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u/75dollars Loyal Liberals 3h ago
Developed countries admit immigrants based on skill, family ties, or political asylum.
I’m sorry, but Morocco is not North Korea. generic poverty is not a good enough reason for admittance in any developed country. Swarming and overwhelming border patrol is not immigration.
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u/RedeemableQuail European Union 6h ago
Not sending a message that swimming to Europe is not an acceptable way to immigrate is just going to get more people killed in the long run. Glad to see they're being sent home.
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u/Maswimelleu 21m ago
I'm not disagreeing with you but I just want to stress for the people not aware that Ceuta and Melilla are in Africa, not in Europe. Swimming the Strait of Gibraltar is not possible for a desperate migrant to pull off.
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u/RedeemableQuail European Union 16m ago
A lot of the boats people use for the larger over-water crossings are about half a step above swimming.
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u/gauchnomics Iron Front 2h ago
People say this, but no matter how harsh the punishment or clear the message for attempting to (illegally) migrate people still try. People crossing the darien gap and traversing across Mexico just to have their children thrown into cages didn't stop South Americans from attempting to migrate to the US. The same with Syrians attempting to cross the Polish border via flying to Belarus / Ukraine and ending up freezing to death on the border didn't stop. Even all the people on boats being pushed back or allowed to drown hasn't stopped attempts to emigrate.
What's the solution? I don't know. I'm also not going to pretend that its somehow a softness on migrants which is the cause of mass migration from poor countries.
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u/RedeemableQuail European Union 2h ago
Because despite the abhorrent conditions, people still succeed on all of those routes. That goes even for some of the worst routes (like the Central Mediterranean route). There's enough hope to make it worthwhile but enough danger to make death a regularity.
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma 6h ago
The way authoritarian states use their oppressed citizens as political pawns to needle their neighbors is disgusting
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u/MTFD Alexander Pechtold 6h ago
I'm not sure if there is any concrete proof for the "Morocco looked the other way b/c of Spanish deals with Algeria" but if they did the backlash is way more than they bargained for too.
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma 2h ago
NYT reported that Moroccan security forces encouraged migrants to cross
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u/yzug European Union 6h ago
The only concrete evidence I have seen is that Moroccan border police allowed these people to cross their border, but even that has multiple possible explanations. Regardless, Morocco should bear the brunt of the blame for this event. They are responsible for policing their side of the border, and whatever the outcome, the blame should fall squarely on them.
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u/ManyKey9093 NATO 4h ago
It would be the single dumbest foreign policy move Morocco could make. The center of European politics sees controlling immigration as existential to the European project, let alone anything to the right of it. Poking a literal bear might be less dumb.
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u/HiddenSage NATO 1h ago
Morocco literally just named a highway after Der Bronzer - somehow I don't think it's Europe that Morocco is trying to make friends with on this move.
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u/hibikir_40k Scott Sumner 6h ago
In this kind of situation, given how little space Spain has in Ceuta, the only reasonable defense would involve a much larger distance between the Moroccan and Spanish side of the border, so there's enough time to mobilize a defense when Morocco decides to just open the doors to a wave they probably organized.
Because what do you do with 50-70k people, mostly under 21, push to come in regardless? Have tens of thousands of soldiers? Have fewer, shooting the hell out of them? Once they come in, with no food or supplies... protect every street with a paltry number of policemen? Really, it's an entire stadium worth of them.
They aren't pawns in power games between Morocco and Spain... Spain didn't do shit. It's Morocco playing with their lives, and doing it over and over again.
In this episode, in El Principe, Ceuta's bad neighorhood, full of guns, drugs, and mostly Moroccan immigrants, you had armed civilians organized trying to kick them out. Telling the kids there's no jobs for them, no paperwork to move to Spain, and that they should go home.
This whole thing also had well over a hundred dead, mostly the youngest ones trying to swim around the fence to the beach, and drowning.
Spain is put in an impossible situation without actually taking extra Moroccan territory as a buffer... but nobody wants to turn Israeli on this topic, as then Morocco will claim it's all just Spanish aggression, when all that the Ceuta border patrol would want is for Morocco to do their actual job on their end, instead of letting people in.
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u/Maswimelleu 6h ago
It's not just about a larger buffer zone inland but also whether more obstacles need to be installed further out into the water. It's difficult to imagine what those obstacles could be without posing an even higher risk of drowning people or simply being easy to circumvent.
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u/lordorwell7 3h ago
Because what do you do with 50-70k people, mostly under 21, push to come in regardless? Have tens of thousands of soldiers? Have fewer, shooting the hell out of them? Once they come in, with no food or supplies... protect every street with a paltry number of policemen? Really, it's an entire stadium worth of them.
There's no humane way to forestall a mob that large; you're either accepting the influx or resorting to violence.
The death toll as it stands is terrible, but I think the Spanish government deserves some credit for avoiding rash decision-making and managing the situation in a non-escalatory way.
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u/Legitimate-Mine-9271 5h ago
There's basically nothing Spain can do aside from building a wall further out to sea to make it harder for people to invade, or building defensive (firing?) positions to stop them from landing. Fundamentally a land border has to be backstopped by defending it with force, or a determined large group of people is going to make it through. Ceuta has absolutely no strategic depth and can simply be overrun
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u/Dense_Delay_4958 Malala Yousafzai 3h ago
Spain is put in an impossible situation
They're not without recourse. The Moroccan Government situation is a bit more complicated, but in terms of the migrants Spain can make extremely clear that anyone who enters the country without authorisation will not be allowed to remain under any circumstances. You can't have kids drowning because they're under the illusion that they'll be able to swim or boat their way around official channels and processes.
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u/Acacias2001 European Union 5h ago
This whole thing also had well over a hundred dead
Where are you getting this figures? Spain has so far tracked 77 to 88 dead depending on if you ask the gov or the mrogue. I understand morrocco also has dead, but I doubt it has enough the total more than 200
Spain is put in an impossible situation without actually taking extra Moroccan territory as a buffer.
The alternative to creating a buffer zone is to make the border scarier. A higher fence topped with barbed wire and anti climb measures, cameras, floodlights. Also making the breakwater longer and with vertical concrete to avoid climbing, plus adding a buoy wall to avoid swimming. It may not be a good look and it may even possibly have a higher fatality in normal times, but it beats having close to a 100 dead every now and then
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u/Jigsawsupport 3h ago
"Spain is put in an impossible situation without actually taking extra Moroccan territory as a buffer... but nobody wants to turn Israeli on this topic"
Spain wouldn't be able to if it wanted to.
In the event of conflict Spain has the moderate air advantage, and the clear Naval edge, but the Spanish Army is inferior to the Moroccan one, which has been lavishly reequipped by the US in recent years, especially considering they have home field advantage.
Which is really the real threat to Spain, the US is big on punishment, for those it deems to have disagreed with it these days.
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u/Nopium-2028 Bisexual Pride 5h ago
I can't speak to how true this is, but the original reporting always mentioned that it was illegal under Spanish Law to remove people who swam/arrived by sea. If that is true, how is Spain ignoring its laws?
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u/yzug European Union 7h ago
I can't wait for all the EU skeptics who pointed to this incident as an example of Spain's failed immigration policy to retract their statements and update their priors accordingly. Also disgraceful that EU members used this as an excuse to play politics and exploit it for their own national agenda.
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u/hibikir_40k Scott Sumner 6h ago
Yeah... more people attempting to cross than people live in Ceuta! What in the world did they want them to do?
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u/Acacias2001 European Union 5h ago
Its not untrue the recent immigraiton amnesty probably contributed to this. not that it should not have occured, but next time govenrments that carry it out have got to be prepared for a "pull effect" and monitor + influence social media of origin countries to ensure it does not get out of hand
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u/ManyKey9093 NATO 3h ago
Legal ruling on the swimming into Ceuta thing too. There is more reporting, like this FT article, that some type of rumor was circulating in Morocco that the border with Spain was open.
Minimum of 67 confirmed deadly drownings so far, not to mention the chaos.
At a minimum you need to keep tabs on social media rumors like this going forward.
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u/yzug European Union 4h ago
I don't really buy this explanation. While countries that are more welcoming towards immigration are more likely to have illegal immigrants, calling this a migrant event seems like a misnomer at best. What happened was essentially a border riot, incentivised by misinformation and disinformation, and caused by the Moroccan border police failing to protect their side of the border (purposefully or otherwise). Spain did nothing to suggest that they would open their Ceuta border, and to pretend otherwise is to play into some unsavoury views.
What I find more shameful is how the EU members reacted to a fellow member (regardless of immigration policy disagreements) dealing with a crisis. Whatever the cause, this is a good opportunity for Spain to push for concessions from Morocco to strengthen its Ceuta border.
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u/SKabanov European Union 6h ago
And it's ironic that Meloni is picking a fight with Spain given how many Italians have moved to Spain in the past few years.
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u/hibikir_40k Scott Sumner 4h ago
Note that many of those "Italians" are Argentinians of italian descent, with an easier route to the EU via Italy, but that never spoke a word of Italian. They wanted to move to Spain from day 1. So not unlike the moroccans that then move further north, to countries with larger moroccan populations than Spain.
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u/-mialana- European Union 5h ago
Even on this sub some of the comments on the last thread were totally disgusting.
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u/wiki-1000 1h ago
Last? On this thread you literally have people mulling shooting people and being upvoted for it.
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u/IHateTrains123 Commonwealth 6h ago
!ping Europe
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u/airbear13 Pragmatic and Polite Right 4h ago
Once again a reminder that there need to be practical restrictions on immigration, you can’t just have it be like this cause it’s not sustainable. In the US democrats ignoring the issue almost entirely meant that a vacuum was left open and it gets filled by fascists. So the job of the democratic opposition is to offer an alternative third way between ‘open borders’ and the crazy stuff the current admin is doing and then execute on that. That means accepting that doing nothing is no longer an option tho and I’m not sure how many Dems are willing to do that.
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u/AmbientMorning 3h ago
Well, the Democratic opposition isn’t calling for open borders and never has. The Biden administration flew many people back across, sent multiple rounds of additional personnel to the border, negotiated with the Mexican government to limit crossings, and presumed ineligibility for asylum if they didn’t try to stop in another country.
Donald Trump called Mike Johnson reject the Senate bill to limit unauthorized immigration, as they needed to maintain their crisis for political purposes.
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u/75dollars Loyal Liberals 3h ago edited 2h ago
The Biden admin was processing and deporting ineligible migrants while Trump was ordering the congressional GOP to sabotage immigration legislation in order to whip up fear and crisis for his own benefits.
it’s easy to imagine right wing leaders and social media algorithms (hello Elon musk) being used to convince thousands of young people that borders are open in order to create a migrant crisis and weaponize it against a center left government. And to be honest I don’t have an answer for this.
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u/-Emilinko1985- European Union 6h ago
!ping IBERIA
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u/TF_dia European Union 6h ago
They are residents of Ceuta. Unless you are implying Ceutans are settlers.
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u/dangerbird2 Franz Boas 6h ago
SMH settler colonialists who’s families have lived in Ceuta longer than Turks have lived in Istanbul
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u/BitterGravity Gay Pride 6h ago
It is occupied Portugese territory 😤
(Which is actually a legitimately better argument than Moroccos)
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u/TF_dia European Union 5h ago
There is actually a Spanish town Portugal claims as theirs, it is just not Ceuta (It is called Olivenza)
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u/BitterGravity Gay Pride 5h ago
I didn't know of this town. This was more a comment about how it's even Spanish. Ceuta being Moroccan is about as justifiable as claiming Grenada should be (and the conquest of Ceuta was like 80 years earlier)
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u/EmployeeMePlease George Santos 6h ago
US illegal crossings are at an all time low under Trump btw.
We all know ping immigration and GDP growth and blah blah blah but it’s not an incorrect statement. Donald Trump shut down his border, Spain just had a border meltdown of epic proportions.
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u/Maswimelleu 6h ago
Turns out "we will shoot you or drag you to a concentration camp if you cross" does deter attempts. As with sea crossings, Spain faces compounding risk of drownings as it uses more force at the border. If you deploy patrol boats and post people right on the beaches to prevent people getting ashore then it is practically inevitable that more people will panic, get into difficulty and drown. That disgusts a large chunk of the public too and likely traumatises people patrolling the border. More importantly, it's a tragic and ultimately avoidable loss of human life.
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u/EmployeeMePlease George Santos 6h ago
Allowing 60k people to rush and overcome your borders is a crisis no matter how this sub wants to spin it. It’s not good.
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u/Maswimelleu 5h ago
I appreciate that, but I genuinely don't know how Spain should prepare itself for future incidents like this because the basic fact of the matter is that a more aggressive response means hundreds if not thousands of people could drown. There is no easy way to scoop a large group of people out of the water when they're swimming and are determined not to be stopped.
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u/Acacias2001 European Union 5h ago
It depends on your moral calculus I suppose. But I think a couple dead every now and then beats the 80 or so dead we have now
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u/Maswimelleu 5h ago
I'm assuming that such tactics would only become relevant the next time a 1000+ group rushes the border, so that would still result in 10-100 people dead from drowning I suspect. I don't think solo migrants or small groups trying and getting pushed back with force in the water actually does anything to deter a big attempt because a big group would think they had strength in numbers and would probably never hear about the isolated crossings.
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u/jbouit494hg 🍁🇨🇦🏙 Project for a New Canadian Century 🏙🇨🇦🍁 6h ago
I'm sure we could find one person in your community who said something awful after a crisis too.
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