Morocco emigration
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https://apnews.com/article/spain-ceuta-migration-66839d113f24ba80d08b36d2b337201c
CEUTA, Spain (AP) — Tens of thousands of migrants who crossed into Spain’s tiny Ceuta territory returned voluntarily to Morocco on Friday, a day after the influx triggered chaos in the North African city and reignited the immigration debate in Europe and beyond. At least 57 migrants died on the journey.
Ceuta’s president put the number of migrants at 60,000, which was equivalent to 70% of the territory’s population. But most of them soon went back, the Spanish government said, after the sudden arrival of so many people sparked a humanitarian crisis.
Some migrants swam several miles through the sea and faced down authorities who tried to turn them back with water cannons, tear gas and warning shots. Those who died included some who drowned or were killed in a stampede to cross a breakwater barrier near a border checkpoint.
It seems that the majority of the 60,000 who entered Cueta returned to Morocco – 48,000. There has been some suggestion that this was a case of the Moroccan government wilfully playing political games by allowing this to happen to spite Spain becuase of the latter´s rapprochement with Algeria (Algeria supplies Spain with natural gas). Algeria is opposed to Morocco on the question of the Spanish Sahara (what is now called Western Sahara) and supports the Polisario Front there.
At any rate, it does seem to be the case that the border guards and police on the Moroccan side might have been instructed from above to be more lax in their approach to preventing this sort of incident. France and Italy have tightened up on movements between them and Spain. This is where the grim logic of nationalist thinking leads you to
A socialist world without borders couldn’t come too soon
https://www.thelocal.es/20260731/spain-says-49000-migrants-stormed-ceuta-border-in-24-hours
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