60k cross into #Spain territory #Ceuta & at least 18 die
Some 60,000 migrants have entered Spain’s Ceuta from #Morocco during the #BorderCrisis, Ceuta’s president says. That is equivalent to 70% of the city’s regular population.
“The situation that Ceuta is going through is absolutely unsustainable,” said Juan Jesús Vivas Friday.
At least 18 migrants have died trying to reach Ceuta after thousands of people breached the border with Morocco.
#immigration
https://apnews.com/article/spain-ceuta-migration-66839d113f24ba80d08b36d2b337201c
The #BorderCrisis boiled over Thursday & Friday with security forces clashing with immigrants on the Moroccan side of the border.
#Spain PM Pedro Sánchez condemned the breach on Friday speaking in Ceuta, describing the events as “a violation of Spain’s territorial integrity.”
Sánchez cast blame on #HumanSmugglers, saying they “deceive so many young people, & ultimately lead many of them to their deaths—whether in the ocean or, as in this case, at Spain’s border in the autonomous city of Ceuta.”