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European Union Defends African Border

Harriet Collins

European Union Defends African Border by Asking France and Italy to Look Concerned Ceuta Crisis Ends After Migrants Discover Europe’s Promised Opportunity Includes No Food, Shelter or Ferry Ticket CEUTA, Spain — European leaders declared the continent’s southern frontier “firmly under control” Friday after approximately 50,000 migrants crossed from Morocco into Spain’s North African territory of Ceuta, exposing what officials described as a small, temporary weakness in the border’s land,…

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Spain Offers Amnesty to One Million Undocumented Migrants

Isabel Navarro

Spain Offers Amnesty to One Million Undocumented Migrants, Discovers the Waiting Room Has a Border Sánchez government insists Spain has not been overrun, merely become extremely popular without reservations MADRID, SPAIN — Spain’s government has rejected suggestions that the country’s migration system is overwhelmed after more than one million undocumented migrants and asylum seekers applied for regularisation, shortly before 50,000 to 60,000 people crossed from Morocco into the Spanish enclave…

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Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez

Yasmina Khan

MADRID, Spain — Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez found himself increasingly isolated Saturday after roughly 50,000 migrants entered Ceuta, apparently mistaking years of progressive political language for practical travel instructions. The crisis, first detailed by Bloomberg and later confirmed in reporting from CNN and the Irish Times, has alarmed European governments that strongly support humane migration policies, particularly when implemented by another government several hundred kilometres away. Sánchez has long presented himself as Europe’s compassionate alternative…