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Posted on 08/01/2026 6:53:13 AM PDT by MtnClimber
On Thursday, shocking footage spread online of droves of primarily young male Moroccans storming Ceuta, a small Spanish territory on the North African coast. Thousands of them swam around breakwaters and climbed fences to enter the tiny enclave. An estimated 60,000 people are believed to have arrived in Ceuta—where the permanent population is 84,000—in 24 hours. Eighteen immigrants have died during the crossings. Meanwhile, local bars and shops are closed for fear of looting. The chaos has caused the leader of Ceuta to appeal to Madrid to send in the army.
The Spanish government has done so, but it should never have come to this. It was bound to, though, because Spanish prime minister Pedro Sánchez, a Socialist, oversees one of Europe’s most permissive migration regimes. In January, Sánchez announced a blanket amnesty program to regularize the immigration status of half a million migrants living illegally in Spain. In a New York Times op-ed published in February, Sánchez characterized the move as both humane and economically necessary, and contrasted his policy to the restrictive ones of “MAGA-style leaders” (read: Hungary’s former prime minister Viktor Orbán).
By summer, applications had soared to over one million—this, in a country whose migrant population is estimated to be at around 15 percent of the national total. Granted, the beneficiaries of this program are mostly Latin Americans, who, owing to a shared language and cultural similarities, are relatively easy to integrate.
But it also benefits illegal migrants who came to Spain in the same way as the throngs that stormed the Ceuta beaches. Add to this a recent ruling from Spain’s supreme court banning the government from returning migrants intercepted as they try to swim to the autonomous enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla.
Across Europe and the United Kingdom, migrants like this—from Islamic countries and Africa—are overwhelming cities, bringing with them serious social disruption and crime. Sweden has recently begun to reform its infamously permissive migration policies after people of migrant backgrounds were shown to be 2.5 times more likely to be criminal than native Swedes. In Germany, police statistics released this past April showed that migrants of Syrian and Afghan background are eight to nine times more likely than the average German to be suspects in criminal cases.
Significant public figures like David Betz, a scholar in the War Studies department of King’s College London, and Thibault de Montbrial, a senior lawyer who prosecutes Islamist criminals for the French government, have warned that the accelerating crisis pushed Europe closer to civil war. It’s not simply a matter of tension between migrants and natives, but also fury from native Europeans at their governments for permitting the invasion. The horrifying summer blockbuster Citizen Vigilante, reviewed by The Free Press’s Douglas Murray, depicts one scenario Betz has predicted if governments don’t change course.
Criticism of mass migration is treated as taboo, and sometimes as criminal.
None of this seems to matter to the European governing class in politics, law, media, academia, and even the Catholic Church. To them, migrants are, as Pope Leo XIV, has described them, “privileged witnesses of hope.” And shame on anybody who says otherwise.
Criticism of mass migration is treated as taboo, and sometimes as criminal. In Britain, Lucy Connolly received a 31-month jail sentence for a racially inflammatory message on X she posted after receiving news of the Southport stabbings. Connolly deleted it three and a half hours later, but the government still tried, convicted, and sentenced her. The 42-year-old’s case became a political rallying point for people accusing the UK government of practicing “two-tier justice”—that is, holding white Britons to higher standards than non-whites or migrants.
While domestic politicians silence dissent, European Union officials in Brussels, as well as judges in most EU countries, make it all but impossible for national leaders trying to stop the illegal migrant flow to do so. When I asked Italian sources why the right-wing Giorgia Meloni government has made so little progress on this front, they all said that the progressive judiciary consistently ties the hands of elected officials.
If this all sounds like the plot of a dystopian horror novel, well, it is. The late French writer Jean Raspail’s controversial 1973 novel, The Camp of the Saints, foresaw exactly the kind of thing happening this week in Ceuta.
In Raspail’s story, the true villains are not the bedraggled migrant armies on the beaches of France, but the ruling-class elites who welcome them as saviors from the psychological burden of being Western. Raspail, who was a traditionalist Catholic, reserved his greatest contempt for churchmen, who, in his telling, are sentimental humanitarians who neither see nor comprehend that the migrant waves will smash what remains of the Church in a de-Christianized Europe.
As Nathan Pinkoski, a young Canadian scholar, writes in the introduction to a recent English-language edition of The Camp of the Saints, the novel explores “the consequences of white guilt.” According to Pinkoski:
This feeling drives the redistribution of wealth and people. Every time Westerners learn of the suffering of non-Westerners, they regard it as their fault and their responsibility. Love of one’s neighbor becomes an unlimited duty to distant strangers. Fulfilling these duties promises to purify the corrupt, tainted West. This passion for the stranger is paired with disdain for one’s actual neighbors. It turns into contempt for one’s own people and, eventually, for oneself. The point is not that these characters love humanity too much. It is that they have learned to call self-hatred love.
French novelist Michel Houellebecq followed the same thematic model in his controversial 2015 novel Submission, which takes place as an Islamist party comes to power in France peacefully and democratically. Though the book was ignorantly denounced as Islamophobic (and inspired a cartoon on the cover of Charlie Hebdo released the day Islamist militants massacred much of the staff of the newspaper), the book’s villains are, in fact, the decadent French elites, who are too spiritually and morally exhausted to manage their society.
If this all sounds like the plot of a dystopian horror novel, well, it is.
For confirmation of Raspail’s and Houellebecq’s insight, look no further than the response of Berlin LGBT leaders and others to last week’s terror attack on that city’s Pride parade, which left one dead and 29 injured. The suspect, Abdul Ballout, died in a shootout with police.
It emerged that Ballout, 21, was the German-born son of a Muslim migrant from Lebanon. He had earlier traveled to Lebanon intending to join ISIS, but was arrested by Lebanese authorities, served a three-month prison sentence, and returned to Germany.
This past May, a Berlin juvenile court convicted Ballout of planning terrorist violence and spreading ISIS propaganda on social media. The court handed down a suspended sentence, leaving him free to drive a car into Pride march goers.
And yet, at a public Berlin vigil for the victims, a young LGBT activist told the crowd that she “had hoped that the attacker was not a foreigner, but a white Christian person.” A reporter for NTV, a popular TV and online news channel, told viewers that “the queer community naturally feels threatened, above all, by right-wing forces.”
Meanwhile, at a press conference, organizers of Berlin Pride told reporters in a statement, “We do not want this deed to be used for political ends. We don’t want any groups to be placed under suspicion for this. People are trying to divide our society and set some people against others. We will not allow this.”
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WHAT? Do they realize that the muslims will throw them off the tops of buildings?
Isn’t Spain the jackasses who won the world kickball trophy last month?
Euro-nuts can live with their insanity of suicidal empathy. LOL.
There you have it. Refuses to repel an invasion that will bring violence, harm and degradation to the native population.
The PM should be hanged as a traitor - and the military sent to repel the invasion.
As it is, the PM will be happy to use that same military and police force to jail, fine and imprison anyone who objects to their country being invaded by hordes of destitute, violent military-aged men.
Trump is correct that this will happen to the U.S. daily if the Democrats are allowed to re-gain power.
It already happened under Biden and on a much larger scale
It already happened under Biden and on a much larger scale
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Yep. We got about 15 million under that pos.
“Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez is REFUSING to deploy the military to defend the borders.”
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They better get rid of him.
Spain’s migrant situation spilling into Ceuta again highlights how Europe’s open policies keep creating new crises. Mass migration strains resources and social cohesion. Countries need to control their borders instead of repeating the same mistakes.
This is not a migrant crisis , this is a coordinated invasion of a sovereign country by Muslim invaders
It’s a Trojan horse attack accept we know what’s in the horse.
Invaders are not migrants
That would be counter to expressed U.S. policy.
If you don't realize this is coordinated with Israel and the U.S. you're not paying attention:
Who’s buying the one use boats bringing the third world to Spain?
Is it George Soros and his creepy family financing hell and destruction for all western countries? Probably.
The Soros family and employees - the most evil jerk offs in the world. Maybe Musk can return the favor with the Soros Island homes... fill the island with criminals and homeless... let the evil Soros gang get what they dish out toi others.
Right. I keep hearing people both in the media and even on this forum referring to it as a “migrant crisis” when it is nothing of the sort.
It is an open, planned, coordinated, invasion.
They better get that through their heads, though it doesn’t look like they will.
You’re right. Muzzies think Mohammed told them to “convert” the world or murder “infidels”.
And here it is! Already on this forum as well from one of the usual suspects.
Israel controls everything, folks.
Hypnotized by Israel, apparently, according to the resident wokeists on this forum.
After you posted that, did you goosestep around your house?
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