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Ceuta asks Madrid to declare a national emergency as thousands cross into the Spanish territory

Migrant Surge Overwhelms Spain's Ceuta Enclave

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Ceuta is in full-blown crisis, with over 2,000 migrants overwhelming a city of just 84,000 people, and Madrid's refusal to declare a national emergency is a dereliction of duty. Local leaders are begging for army deployment while reception centers collapse and hundreds sleep on streets. Spain's Supreme Court ruling banning sea pushbacks has made an already dire situation functionally unmanageable.

The real story in Ceuta is a death toll that keeps climbing — 29 bodies recovered since January, with 10 in July alone, including young men found decomposed near Malaga. Facilities for unaccompanied minors are running at 1,600 percent capacity, and arrivals are up 149 percent compared to the same period last year. Treating this purely as a security problem ignores a mounting humanitarian catastrophe unfolding in real time.

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