Spain responded to the Ceuta crisis with real, concrete action — approving immigration reform, establishing a unified command, allocating over 200 million euros for security and migrant care and formally requesting EU emergency funding. The priority is lawful return and repatriation while protecting unaccompanied minors and asylum seekers. Stoking fear and spreading hate speech, which spiked to nearly 10,000 posts in two days, only makes solving this harder.