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Spain installing containment fence between Morocco and Ceuta after massive frontier rush killed 67
NY Post ^ | 8/01/26 | Associated Press

Posted on 08/01/2026 10:48:01 AM PDT by Libloather

CEUTA, Spain (AP) — Spain announced it was installing a 500-meter-long (1,600-foot) containment barrier on the sea border between its North African territory of Ceuta and neighboring Morocco after between 50,000 and 60,000 migrants breached the frontier earlier this week.

The death toll has climbed to 67, including some who drowned and others who were killed in a stampede to cross a breakwater barrier, the Spanish government said Saturday.

A handful of exhausted migrants who swam to Ceuta’s urban Tarajal beach Saturday morning were met by soldiers who escorted them back across the border.

Spain’s interior ministry says the majority of those who entered the Spanish territory in North Africa have already returned to Morocco.

“We are relentless against those who break the law,” Spanish Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska told journalists in Ceuta on Saturday.

Questioned how this massive border breach could have happened given the heavy security on both sides of the border and whether Morocco posed a threat to Ceuta, Marlaska defended the government in Rabat.

“The events require an evaluation by Spain and Morocco,” he said. But it was the cooperation with its neighbors that allowed Spain “to revert the situation in 24 hours.”

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; Health/Medicine; History
KEYWORDS: ceuta; fence; killed; morocco
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Walks don't work. So I've been told.
1 posted on 08/01/2026 10:48:01 AM PDT by Libloather
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I would like to see proof that 4i
8000 or so illegals went back to Morocco


2 posted on 08/01/2026 10:55:11 AM PDT by RWGinger
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48,000 illegals


3 posted on 08/01/2026 10:55:48 AM PDT by RWGinger
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“A handful of exhausted migrants who swam to Ceuta’s urban Tarajal beach Saturday morning were met by soldiers who escorted them back across the border.”

What? They get to do that without providing the “asylum seeker” a place to stay, food, medical care and a lawyer to present his case before an immigration judge?


4 posted on 08/01/2026 10:58:35 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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Airing now on Real America’s Voice. Law and Border. If you don’t see Ben Bergquams presentation you have no clue what is going on with immigration. It will air again today.
Here he interviews a Chicago cop who was just arrested because he’s an ILLEGAL ALIEN!!!


5 posted on 08/01/2026 11:01:55 AM PDT by AuntB (Trump is our Ben Franklin - Brilliant, Boisterous, Brave and ALL AMERICAN!)
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To: Libloather

6 posted on 08/01/2026 11:05:01 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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Closing the fence after the cows are out. That’s using the old bean, Pedro Sánchez. Just like a commie leader.


7 posted on 08/01/2026 11:07:00 AM PDT by SharpRightTurn (Giving money & power to government is like giving whiskey & car keys to teenage boys. P. J. O'Rourk)
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It would have to have an in-water component to prevent people from just going around it. Plus, the border appears to be at least 6 miles long. Not an easy ‘containment fence’ build.
8 posted on 08/01/2026 11:08:20 AM PDT by neverevergiveup
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Spain installing containment fence between Morocco and Ceuta.

After the fire is out install water sprinklers sign says.


9 posted on 08/01/2026 11:09:36 AM PDT by Vaduz (NEVER TRUST A DEMOCRAT)
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Should be one soldier telling a dozen invaders to turn around.


10 posted on 08/01/2026 11:20:37 AM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: aquila48

Am I supposed to believe that these people swam 3 miles? I do not. It is more likely that they came by boat and got out a few hundred yards from shore and waded in.


11 posted on 08/01/2026 11:22:13 AM PDT by Freee-dame (The left never dreamed that Trump would be back in the White House in 2025. )
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“Spain installing containment fence between Morocco and Ceuta after massive frontier rush killed 67”

Why does the Spanish government HATE Muslims? What kind of message does this send to those poor, decrepit, military-aged, celebrating men, who are out of luck, out of hope, and are forced by Colonialism to leave the land of their parents, grandparents, great-grandparents and generations going back to who knows when.

Hopefully the European Union will put an end to this blatant ABUSE OF HUMAN RIGHTS. NO ONE in their condition (fit, happy, and ready to rock and roll) should be prevented from entering a new country (even if they’ve expressly stated their intention to take over the new country).

Spaniards should be ASHAMED of themselves for allowing this wall to be built.


12 posted on 08/01/2026 11:24:38 AM PDT by BobL (Trusting one's doctor is the #1 health mistake one can make.)
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To: Libloather

Some .50 cals would also be convincing.


13 posted on 08/01/2026 11:46:38 AM PDT by ealgeone
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Somewhere in Europe there's a Samoan judge who will Tell Trump er, Spain it can't do that!
14 posted on 08/01/2026 11:52:36 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (The greatest power the media has is the power to ignore.)
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Just shoot the invaders.

Then it might not happen in the same place again.


15 posted on 08/01/2026 11:52:44 AM PDT by FlyingEagle
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What? They get to do that without providing the “asylum seeker” a place to stay, food, medical care and a lawyer to present his case before an immigration judge?

These folks were not asylum seekers (An asylum seeker is a person who has left their country and is seeking protection from persecution and serious human rights violations in another country). They were fleeing a society where you have to get a job to survive.


16 posted on 08/01/2026 11:56:46 AM PDT by Steven Scharf
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Greatly.


17 posted on 08/01/2026 12:01:47 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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18 posted on 08/01/2026 12:26:22 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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The death toll has climbed to 67, including some who drowned and others who were killed in a stampede to cross a breakwater barrier, the Spanish government said Saturday.

I got a great idea for a new tourist attraction!

Instead of the "Running of the Bulls" in Pamplona...

...the "Swarming Stampede of the Illegals" in Ceuta:

Regards,

19 posted on 08/01/2026 12:56:12 PM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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“The horse has left the barn, so time to close the door” moment


20 posted on 08/01/2026 1:12:04 PM PDT by Dalberg-Acton
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