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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“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.
60,000 coming ashore and going to the bathroom , should smell nice
I can’t believe they can swim that far. I would figure the currents through the strait would carry them sideways.
1973
Was it a instruction manual?
Not at first. It is now.
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