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Ceuta Invasion Is the Predictable Result of Spanish Amnesty

On Thursday, Americans watched in stunned recognition as thousands of young men poured from Morocco into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta.

Like Melilla, further to the east on the far northern shore of Morocco, the city is a relic of Spain’s once vast colonial empire. Nothing separates Morocco from these Spanish territories except shallow waters and light fencing. Ceuta’s local government has begged Madrid to declare a national emergency, but Spain’s interior minister said their law does not consider migration flows as a risk to national security.

Illegal immigrants have long targeted Ceuta and Melilla, the Canary Islands, and even the mainland coast of Spain.

Back in May 2021, more than 8,000 migrants illegally entered Ceuta in a few days. That looks like nothing compared to the current wave. Morocco won’t, or can’t, stop them leaving.

In the year 711, armies of the Umayyad Caliphate crossed the Strait of Gibraltar and fought the ruling Visigoths. The Moors established the region of Al-Andalus on the Iberian Peninsula where they ruled for 700 years. But under a series of Christian rulers, Spain eventually drove the Caliphate out.

The last Muslim state of Granada fell in 1492, the year Columbus set sail for America.

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Now the Moors are back, this time not by the sword.

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