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Europe’s Borderless Dream Becomes a Nightmare
The Free Press ^ | 31 July 2026 | Douglas Murray

Posted on 08/01/2026 8:27:29 PM PDT by Rummyfan

The West has sleepwalked into mass migration for more than a decade. Will a glaring breach of its borders jar it awake?

The images were unforgettable. More than 60,000 migrants entered the tiny Spanish territory of Ceuta from Morocco over the course of 24 hours.

It’s arguably the most vivid illustration we’ve ever seen of the migrant crisis that has transformed the face of Europe in one decade and that continues to consume the continent’s politics. And no one saw it all coming more clearly than our own Douglas Murray. His 2017 book, The Strange Death of Europe, chronicles the errors of judgment that led Western leaders so carelessly to open their doors to unlimited migration.

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Will the brief storming of Ceuta prompt a reckoning among European elites, or will the crisis linger on, with the same denials and failed solutions from the leadership class? Read Douglas’s take on what comes next.

Eleven years ago, almost to the day, Europe was experiencing a migration wave that threatened to make the continent buckle. In the space of a matter of weeks, more than a million people from Africa, the Middle East, and the Far East made their way into Europe, principally by crossing to the islands of Greece and Italy: “the soft underbelly of Europe.”

As various European countries started to panic, it was German chancellor Angela Merkel who decided to control the day. “Wir schaffen das,” she said in August 2015. “We can do this.” Merkel and some of her counterparts in the EU effectively suspended normal immigration procedures and opened the borders of Europe to anyone who wanted to come.

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1 posted on 08/01/2026 8:27:29 PM PDT by Rummyfan
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“His 2017 book, The Strange Death of Europe, chronicles the errors of judgment that led Western leaders so carelessly to open their doors to unlimited migration.”

If it was “errors of judgment”, they would have ended their experiment DECADES AGO. Even 20 years ago it was perfectly clear that their ‘migrants’, particularly their CHILDREN, had no intention of assimilating.

It’s called the GREAT REPLACEMENT and it’s obviously intentional.


2 posted on 08/01/2026 8:38:28 PM PDT by BobL (Trusting one's doctor is the #1 health mistake one can make.)
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To: Rummyfan

60,000 coming ashore and going to the bathroom , should smell nice


3 posted on 08/01/2026 8:41:09 PM PDT by butlerweave (Fateh)
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To: Rummyfan

I can’t believe they can swim that far. I would figure the currents through the strait would carry them sideways.


4 posted on 08/01/2026 8:47:46 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: Rummyfan


1973

5 posted on 08/01/2026 8:57:16 PM PDT by MacNaughton
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To: BobL
Camp Of The Saints

Was it a instruction manual?

6 posted on 08/01/2026 9:03:24 PM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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To: Deaf Smith

Not at first. It is now.


7 posted on 08/01/2026 9:23:53 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: Deaf Smith

8 posted on 08/01/2026 10:31:44 PM PDT by Gunslingr3
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To: BradyLS; All

Yes, and I believe that the whole immigration disaster is by design. All over the West.

God help us, the indigenous Western peoples, all🙏🏻✝️🕎

Amen Amen Amen.


9 posted on 08/01/2026 10:47:50 PM PDT by Menes (May Charlie Kirk‘s memory be a blessing. Amen.)
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To: Menes
God help us?

At this point we need the Earthly intervention of Misters Smith & Wesson, Colt, Remington, Browning , et al.

10 posted on 08/01/2026 11:02:44 PM PDT by jmacusa ( Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots.)
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To: jmacusa

But of course. Or Messrs. Sig Sauer and Heckler&Koch.

Still, in my opinion, we need His help as well. Yes, many call me a bible-thumper, but without His blessing, human efforts cannot stand forever.

Psalm127: Unless the Lord builds the house,
those who build it labor in vain.
Unless the Lord watches over the city,
the watchman stays awake in vain.

Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition. Amen!


11 posted on 08/01/2026 11:13:07 PM PDT by Menes (May Charlie Kirk‘s memory be a blessing. Amen.)
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To: Menes

I agree entirely!


12 posted on 08/02/2026 2:08:27 AM PDT by jmacusa ( Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots.)
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To: Deaf Smith

” Camp Of The Saints
Was it a instruction manual?”

It was meant to be a warning, at least to the person who wrote it. But warnings don’t work when the people you’re trying to warn are either brainwashed or determined to terminate your culture.


13 posted on 08/02/2026 5:43:53 AM PDT by BobL (Trusting one's doctor is the #1 health mistake one can make.)
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To: BobL

“It’s called the GREAT REPLACEMENT and it’s obviously intentional.

The Coudenhove-Kalergi plan.


14 posted on 08/02/2026 7:04:58 AM PDT by dljordan
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To: Rummyfan
It's been going on for a long time all over Europe - all over the Western World, with no end in sight:

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15 posted on 08/02/2026 7:27:22 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (You Say You Want a Revolution?)
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[It’s called the GREAT REPLACEMENT and it’s obviously intentional.

Yes it is

This is what DEMOCRAT JOE BIDEN was doing with Open Borders

President Donald Trump is trying to stop it

Meanwhile in Europe 🌍:

They just need Digital ID 🆔 on ALL
citizens to verify legal status

Eventually a tattoo
on the Right Hand
or in the Forehead

Make it a Worldwide yes
Global Digital ID 🆔

/Huge sarcasm tag


16 posted on 08/02/2026 7:29:43 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They Did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: Rummyfan

A manifestation of the Suicidal Empathy engendered by the Post-War Open Society Consensus.


17 posted on 08/02/2026 8:11:25 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution.)
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To: SaveFerris

The mark of the beast. Anyone NOT a citizen should have 666 tattooed on their forehead


18 posted on 08/02/2026 8:31:55 AM PDT by DownInFlames (p)
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To: DownInFlames

That may be how it begins

Prisoners too

Time will tell

✝️✝️🙏🙏🛐🛐


19 posted on 08/02/2026 9:17:24 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They Did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: Bon of Babble

Europe 🌍 is in GRAVE DANGER ⚠️⚠️⚠️
of being substantially taken over by Islam

😱😨🤯😱🙀😦

If I may be Captain Obvious 😉😉😉

Will the European Union armies save Ceuta?

I doubt it. I hope I’m wrong but I doubt it.


20 posted on 08/02/2026 9:22:05 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They Did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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