US President Donald Trump described in the early hours of this Sunday as “sad” what is happening in Ceuta and said that Spain is a country with “zero control” of its borders, referring to the massive entry of immigrants last July. Through a post on his network, Truth Social, Trump again alluded to the Ceuta case, without explicitly mentioning it: “Very sad what is happening in Spain, a country with ZERO control of its border.” It is not the first time the US president criticizes Spain, whom he has already reproached for its disagreements over defense spending or its stance on the conflicts in Iran or Gaza. Thus, last week he called Spain a “ruined country” and said that the massive entry of immigrants in Ceuta last July was “very sad to see.” “Spain will be a ruined country. I have problems with Spain because it is not behaving very well regarding NATO and does not pay what it should pay,” the president said in an interview with the British channel GB News. About Ceuta, Trump said on that medium that “what is happening there is very sad to see (…) Thousands of people breaking in en masse into your country. I have never seen anything like it,” he pointed out in relation to the massive entry of immigrants at the end of last July.
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Migration crisis in Ceuta
Ceuta, a coexistence so far successful
Ceuta is a unique space within Spain as a whole. A city that presents certain characteristics that differentiate it from other territories, from its demographic composition and the weight of the different religious communities that inhabit it, to its collective identity as a society based on coexistence, recognition of the other, and the feeling of belonging to Spain.
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MIGRATION CRISIS
Ceuta, trapped in the political war
Polarization and the great political battle on the way to the general elections also play their part in the Ceuta crisis and complicate the way out. The Government’s decision this Saturday, for the first time in a month, to take legal control of the situation and displace the city, which was boycotting a key location for more than 1,000 immigrants in the port, brings to the forefront an issue that has been on the table since day one but has not been the focus of political debate: the hitherto quiet clash between the two administrations, which have been playing cat and mouse for a month with the only way out of the hole the city has sunk into since the entry of 72,000 immigrants in the largest jump in history: enabling spaces to house all those who stayed and thus begin to register them and start the process to return them to Morocco.
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Migration crisis
Back to school in Ceuta: “Of school supplies, the first thing is pepper spray”
Before books, notebooks, or the backpack, Vanesa Castro, a resident of Ceuta, has started preparing her 14-year-old daughter’s return to school with a self-defense item. “Of school supplies, the first thing was to buy a pepper spray. And it was hard to get because they are sold out in the city. I brought it from the mainland,” she says. After spending a few weeks on vacation in Málaga, she called Algeciras (Cádiz) to order this spray, whose use in Spain is regulated by law and prohibited for minors. Between her urgency and the lack of stock, the store owner ended up selling her one that was already opened. This woman’s testimony is a sign of the fear many Ceutans have about how they will experience a return to classrooms amid a migration crisis that has completely altered their lives in just over a month. “My daughter used to go to and from school alone, which is close to home,” says Castro, who lives in the Otero neighborhood. “That is no longer possible, nor is it possible for her to dress the way she used to because people stare at her blatantly. We are in a situation where we have to take and bring them from everywhere.”
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COLUMN
The judicialization of politics reaches Ceuta
One of the main problems of democratic systems is finding a suitable balance between the principle of majority — that it decides — and the institutions of the rule of law — that the exercise of power is subject to the law. The balance between these two elements, the democratic and the liberal, seems clear. Another matter is how it is put into practice. Tensions between the two end up being inevitable because there is always the search for the use of constitutional jurisdiction and courts as instruments of action aimed at obtaining specific political benefits. If we are concerned about populism, it is precisely because it seeks to subject the judiciary to the majority’s steamroller, breaking the guardrails that allow control over the exercise of power. But, on the other hand, except in clear cases, it also does not seem very legitimate to instrumentalize the judiciary to prevent the free exercise of political action. A government of judges, their direct involvement in political processes, is as undesirable as an arbitrary exercise of the majority.
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Trump sees what happens in Ceuta as “sad” and says Spain does not control its border
US President Donald Trump described in the early hours of this Sunday as “sad” what is happening in Ceuta and said that Spain is a country with “zero control” of its borders, referring to the massive entry of immigrants last July.
Through a post on his network, Truth Social, Trump again alluded to the Ceuta case, without explicitly mentioning it: “Very sad what is happening in Spain, a country with ZERO control of its border.”
It is not the first time the US president criticizes Spain, whom he has already reproached for its disagreements over defense spending or its stance on the conflicts in Iran or Gaza. Thus, last week he called Spain a “ruined country” and said that the massive entry of immigrants in Ceuta last July was “very sad to see.” “Spain will be a ruined country. I have problems with Spain because it is not behaving very well regarding NATO and does not pay what it should pay,” the president said in an interview with the British channel GB News. About Ceuta, Trump said on that medium that “what is happening there is very sad to see (…) Thousands of people breaking in en masse into your country. I have never seen anything like it,” he pointed out in relation to the massive entry of immigrants at the end of last July.
At the end of July, more than 70,000 immigrants entered Ceuta irregularly from Morocco, most of whom returned in the following days, although just over 5,000 still remain in the city awaiting the processing of their return or asylum files. (Efe)
Good morning. We start the live narration of the latest on the migrant crisis in Ceuta, this Sunday, September 6. In the early hours, US President Donald Trump described as “sad” what is happening in the autonomous city and said that Spain is a country with “zero control” of its borders, referring to the massive entry of immigrants last July.
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