Moroccans invade Spain
Am I exaggerating with that headline? Perhaps a bit; perhaps not:
An unprecedented wave of 60,000 illegal migrants from Africa has flooded the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, prompting Spain to deploy its military – as locals liken the invasion to an “apocalypse.”
Harrowing local media reports reveal residents and business owners in Ceuta – a Spanish territory located on the north African coast – are terrified to open their doors amid the rush of migrants, many of whom arrived wearing nothing but swimwear without a penny or possession to their name.
“Businesses closed. Shops shut because if you open a business, it gets overrun … We’re scared. The streets are packed. There are no measures in place. It’s every man for himself. They’re not giving us any help,” a terrified downtown restaurant owner who didn’t want to give their name told state-owned Spanish media outlet RTVE.
Why Spain? Look at a map – it’s very close.
Why now? The Spanish Supreme Court recently seemed to give the green light:
The shocking surge comes after a ruling by Spain’s Supreme Court earlier this month, which said migrants intercepted at sea while attempting to reach Ceuta or Melilla, another Spanish autonomous city in northern Morocco, cannot be immediately kicked out.
Also, the government has recently been engaged in an amnesty program of sorts:
Meanwhile, the socialist Spanish government — which just months ago launched a program to give legal status to some 500,000 illegal immigrants in the country — said it deployed 200 specialized police officers and 60 troops from the mainland to assist Ceuta’s own forces on Friday.
Two hundred is just window-dressing, it seems to me.
One more thing: Spain has been a target from the Muslim world for a long time – a target in the sense of its having once been a Muslim land, although that ended in 1492 with the Reconquista. But once a Muslim land, always a Muslim land, according to a large faction of Muslims. Can we call this an attempt at the Re-Reconquista?
The government says the newcomers are being expelled, so perhaps this is just a temporary test:
However, by Friday afternoon the Spanish Interior Minister said the country was expelling migrants at a rate of 150 per minute, and that 25,000 had already returned home after the sudden influx triggered a humanitarian crisis.
Many had also returned voluntarily, the government said.
The leadership of Spain has blamed human traffickers, and the government of Morocco is said to be cooperating with the return.
Here’s an interesting comment:
Carmen Gonzalez Bermudez who was in the city to see her parents told the BBC that the past day had been “very overwhelming”.
She said she saw “thousands and thousands and thousands of people in swimming costumes and all wet, just coming from the sea”, adding that “I know most of them are nice people just looking for a better future for themselves. But we cannot give that to them”.
ADDENDUM:
Italy has noticed, and has suspended its Schengen Agreement with Spain and has closed its “sea and air borders” with that country. The EU head says this:
Ursula von der Leyen, President of the EU Commission, said: “The images coming from Ceuta are unacceptable. We cannot allow anyone to come to our Union without abiding by our rules. Dangerous crossings must stop immediately. Smuggling networks must be dismantled. And returns must be swift, as our rules allow.”
Well, what are you actually going to do about it?
The territory of Spain that was invaded is not Spain proper, by the way – it’s described this way:
The city of Ceuta, a peninsular region covering 19.9 sq. km (7.7 sq. mi) on Africa’s northern coast, is one of two Spanish exclaves on the continent, along with Melilla, which is about 220 km (140 mi) southeast.
The two Spanish autonomous cities represent the European Union’s only land borders with Africa. Spain has possessed Ceuta, which is separated from mainland Spain by the Strait of Gibraltar, since 1580.
Ceuta has a population of more than 83,000, a mix of Christians and Muslims, including residents and day workers from Morocco and Spain. Ceuta’s population has generally lived harmoniously.
But Morocco, which largely surrounds the two exclaves, still treats them as occupied lands and challenges Spain’s sovereignty, citing history dating back to the Islamic conquests during the 8th century.
So Morocco actually claims the territory officially. You can find a map and some history in this article. So if Ceuta is part of the African continent, why did many of these “migrants” come by water? Because the land border sports a big fence built in 1993-1995:
The fence consists of parallel 6 metre (20-foot) high fences topped with barbed wire, with regular watchposts and a road running between them to accommodate police patrols or ambulance service in case of need. Underground cables connect spotlights, noise and movement sensors, and video cameras to a central control booth; dozens of guard ships and patrol boats check the coast, while 621 Guardia Civil officers and 548 police officers control the shore.
Also see this commentary from Brendan O’Neill:
Yet even if the Spanish manage to tame this searing crisis of sovereign rule – and that’s a big ‘if’ – the lessons of it should reverberate not only across Spain but all of Europe. For the fall of Ceuta exposes the lethal strain in globalism. It speaks – screams in fact – to the chaotic trashing of sovereignty, democracy and our very way of life that globalism and its gold-collared acolytes have brought about.
The storming of Ceuta shatters the falsehoods of the left. …
The whole world can see there are virtually no women and children in those mobs. The whole world knows Morocco is not ravaged by war or hunger. From now on, every utterance of the phrase ‘asylum seeker’ should invoke noisy, angry scepticism.
The Ceuta crisis also confirms that the moral cowardice of the modern state is like a red rag to hostile actors.
I can’t say I agree with O’Neill about what “the whole world knows.” There’s always suicidal empathy.
ELON MUSK: “The reason I went so hardcore for Trump was because, to me, this was a fork in the road. If they had another four years, they would legalize enough illegals in the swing states to make the swing states not swing states, they would be blue states. Then they would win.”
Sanchez of Spain, whom Musk has called a traitor, knows this math. So do the Socialist/Communist Parties of all Western countries including the US.
My family had a business in Spain with 400 employees going back to Franco so I am quite familiar with Spanish politics. A huge portion of Sanchez supporters would fit right into our DSA. They hate Spain and want the people replaced. They say so openly. They hide nothing.
“The guard of a legitimate king is composed of citizens: that of a tyrant is composed of foreigners. It is a habit of tyrants to prefer the company of aliens to that of citizens at table and in society; citizens, they feel, are enemies, but aliens will offer no opposition.”
-Aristotle
@neo: One more thing: Spain has been a target from the Muslim world for a long time – a target in the sense of its having once been a Muslim land, although that ended in 1492 with the Reconquista. But once a Muslim land, always a Muslim land, according to a large faction of Muslims.
Indeed. Back in the post-9-11 days I noticed Bin Laden’s first video after 9-11:
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Let the whole world know that we shall never accept that the tragedy of Andalucia would be repeated in Palestine. We cannot accept that Palestine will become Jewish.
–Osama Bin Laden
https://buzzmachine.com/2001/10/09/i-repeat-we-wont-know/
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I do recall that video but I can’t find a more substantive source today.
First we retake Palestine, then we retake Spain!
Tousi TV this afternoon had videos of the invasion. As he wryly noted all the “women and children” in the invasion. The video showed nothing but 20-30 year old males.
Most Euorpean countries today are pushing back against Islam or Islamism.
Here’s the French entryism effort, clearly targeting Islam:
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France has completed the investigation America has yet to undertake. In May 2025, the French Interior Ministry published “The Muslim Brotherhood and Political Islam in France,” the product of a mission assigned to senior officials a year earlier. The inquiry examined political Islam, the Muslim Brotherhood’s role in spreading it, and the movement’s connections with affiliated European networks. French authorities concluded that the danger extended beyond jihadist violence. They described an assiduous campaign to acquire influence within the ordinary institutions of French life.
–“Entryism Comes to America: France has investigated the Islamist march through civic institutions. It’s time the United States did the same.”
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/entryism-comes-america
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Several European countries have laws concerning the Muslim required dress for women.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hijab_and_burqa_controversies_in_Europe
Maybe it’s too little, too late but Europeans are trying to thread the needle between Western freedom and Islamist infiltration.
Looking at the map, the obvious solution is for Spain to sell or cede Ceuta to Morocco. Swallow your pride and get rid of the problem immediately. All of those men will suddenly find out that they never left home. What to do with Spaniards living there is a problem which requires some clever thinking.
The world according to Islam divides into:
* Dar al-Islam (the House of Peace, regions controlled by Islam)
* Dar al-Harb (the House of War, everywhere else, eventually to be controlled by Islam)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divisions_of_the_world_in_Islam
Guess where you live.
I found a direct news transcript for the Bin Laden quote I presented earlier:
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Oct. 7 — This is an uncorrected transcript of a translation from Arabic to English of Osama bin Laden’s response to the start of military action against the Taliban in Afghanistan. This statement by bin Laden, videotaped prior to the beginning of the military action, appeared on Al-Jazeera, the Arabic satellite station.
Let the whole world know that we shall never accept that the tragedy of Andalucia (ph) would be repeated in Palestine. We cannot accept that Palestine will becomeJewish.
–Bin Laden
https://abcnews.com/International/story?id=80490
”…the obvious solution is for Spain to sell or cede Ceuta to Morocco. Swallow your pride and get rid of the problem immediately.”
NO, NO, NO, NO, NO!!!
Why is it that, when faced with a violent enemy, the first reaction of some people is to give that enemy everything he wants?
Why is it that, when faced with a violent enemy, the first reaction of some people is to give that enemy everything he wants?
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Well, it’s the well being of the people of Ceuta at stake. It’s not as if it’s something important like how the Red Sox are doing this season.
Good-bye Schengen.
“One day, millions of men will leave the Southern Hemisphere to go to the Northern Hemisphere. And they will not go there as friends. Because they will go there to conquer it. And they will conquer it with their sons. The wombs of our women will give us victory.” Algerian leader Houari Boumedienne speaking at the UN, 1974
mkent: it’s called cowardice.
Never give a inch!
–Ken Kesey, “Sometimes a Great Notion”
mkent
The left counts getting something at each meeting, you are right.
1 out of 4 people on this planet is a Muslim and their numbers are growing, although I wonder how the ChiComs forced actions at turning the Chinese Muslims into Atheist works into that.
Let that sink in.
I’m so old that I can remember when immigration was a California problem and we passed Prop. 187 to deal with it and it was struck down.
Now every state is a border state and the entire west has a problem.
The hard times that soft men create are coming, fast.
@ physicsguy > “The video showed nothing but 20-30 year old males.”
Sounds familiar.
From Neo’s link to the NYPost:
Why the sudden decision by so many people to come in one day?
Was the surge organized deliberately (no traffickers seem to be profiting by it).
Collusion with Moroccan authorities, just causing trouble?
Sounds a lot like the South American countries pushing their people to go North, but the Moroccans didn’t have that long a trip.
As one of the young men implied, it was more of a short impromptu tourist-y excursion than a considered immigration attempt.
It looks similar to the “youth” mobs that overwhelm public spaces and stores that is loosely organized via social media that goes viral. I wouldn’t be surprised if there was a political/intelligence actor behind the “loosely” organized and I’d guess someone knows who that is.
It feels like a test, a probe
By the way, you have the construction of the border fence taking 802 years. Even for government work this seems excessive.
A test or a feint, it still provided great video/optics for the Trump “control our border” message, along with (potentially??) kicking the EU or European states into more realistic policy planning?
I remain a little skeptical of the reported EU response, as Woke/DEI (and Islamism) seems to be hanging on there really well still, but we have been hearing more and more about an underground swelling of resistance to their current migration and migrants’ behaviors.
I’m rather enjoying this myself.
Definitely a designed operation.
Who, or why, is still open.
Any intelligence ageny worth its funding should be looking into this.
Of course, the border was NOT open, officially anyway.
Report this morning:
https://apnews.com/article/ceuta-spain-morocco-migration-f3a7f514a7792c39d8b8d5d814fa5158
Advice to would-be migrants: don’t believe everything you read online.