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Hundreds of migrants attempt to swim from Morocco to the Spanish territory of Ceuta

Migrants disembark at the port of “La Estaca” in Valverde on the Canary island of El Hierro, Spain, on Monday. Thousands of migrants have attempted to cross the border from Morocco to the Spanish exclave of Ceuta in the last few days, including hundreds of youths who tried to swim their way around controls, Spanish authorities said Monday. Cristina Pérez, …

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BARCELONA, Spain — Thousands of migrants have attempted to cross the border from Morocco to the Spanish enclave of Ceuta in the last few days, including hundreds of youth who tried to swim their way around controls, Spanish authorities said Monday. Pérez did not disclose how many had successfully reached Ceuta but Pérez explained that following Spanish law that allowed …

Border rules leave teenage migrants trapped in Spain’s Ceuta

Teenagers travel to Ceuta, a Spanish enclave next to Morocco, hoping to get to the EU but often find themselves trapped. Age determination tests In 2017, as Yusef was living in the minors’ centre, he was subjected to an “age determination” test – which uses various methods to estimate a person’s age – which he said wrongly established his birth …

MADRID — The land borders between Morocco and Spain’s North African enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla will reopen next week, Spain said Thursday, after being closed for more than two years due to COVID-19 restrictions and tensions between the two countries. Thursday’s announcement came as Madrid and Rabat are working to mend relations after a months-long spat centered on the …

Hundreds of children stranded at Spanish enclave of Ceuta

With Ceuta’s border apparently under control after mass crossings of migrants and refugees from neighbouring Morocco this week, attention turned on Thursday to the plight of hundreds of unaccompanied children stranded in and outside the Spanish enclave. I cannot even tell you what people eat.” A 15-year-old boy from Fnideq, the Moroccan town across the border, meanwhile told AP that …

As migrants continue to reach Ceuta, Spanish pushback hardens

About 8,000 people have streamed into the Spanish city of Ceuta from Morocco in the past two days, most of them swimming around breakwaters and across the border to reach the Spanish enclave in North Africa. Like Melilla, another Spanish possession on the Moroccan coast, Ceuta in recent decades has become a flashpoint for migrants from Morocco and sub-Saharan Africa …

CEUTA, Spain — Spain deployed its military to the Moroccan border Tuesday and expelled nearly half of the thousands of migrants who jumped fences or swam onto European soil over two days after Rabat loosened border controls amid a deepening diplomatic spat. While calling Morocco a “friend of Spain,” Sánchez also urged authorities to “respect the shared border.” A senior …

Madrid has returned almost half the 6,000 people who arrived, as the Ceuta enclave’s president described an ‘invasion’. Spain has sent 2,700 people back to Morocco, out of the more than 6,000 who swam from the North African country into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta over the past two days. Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska confirmed the move on Tuesday, adding …