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Trump Is Running Out Of Time To End Refugee Asylum Abuse For Good

The Trump administration can and must permanently improve asylum integrity, or risk our border looking like Spain again.

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The most powerful people-magnet on Earth was at the root of last week’s epic mass migration event that swamped Ceuta, Spain’s city enclave on the Moroccan coast: the perceived opportunity among poor laborers to lodge political-persecution asylum claims they know would allow their probable release into rich destination countries, pretty much forever.

Video footage shows hundreds of migrants crossing into Spain's North African enclave of Ceuta on Thursday, with many entering on foot or by sea. pic.twitter.com/wJV1pKZjy5— CBS News (@CBSNews) July 30, 2026

Video footage shows hundreds of migrants crossing into Spain's North African enclave of Ceuta on Thursday, with many entering on foot or by sea. pic.twitter.com/wJV1pKZjy5

What just happened in Spain must serve as a seminal warning to the Trump administration that its admirable work to quiet the U.S. southern border — the same formula Ceuta used to deny migrants the globally coveted asylum claim process — is very far from complete.

Spain’s Supreme Court triggered the human torrent when it struck down a policy uncannily like Trump’s border policy. It promptly expels arriving migrants and denies all a chance to start the lengthy asylum claim process that leads to interior releases. The Spanish court required that Spain adjudicate asylum claims before expulsion.

Trump’s border expulsion and asylum-denial policies, which reduced crossings to historically low levels, are just as legally fragile and politically reversible. The administration can and must use Spain’s misfortune as a catalyst to permanently improve asylum integrity that will forever prevent an American Ceuta. But time to do so is short and dwindling.

On Jan.20, 2025, Trump issued the presidential proclamation “Guaranteeing the States Protection Against Invasion.” It triggered U.S. Immigration and Nationality Act section 212(f) to suspend the right of illegal crossers to apply for asylum. That plus orders for Border........

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