>Officials in the Spanish territory of Ceuta on the northwestern tip of Africa on Thursday asked the government in Madrid to declare a national emergency and send the army to help secure its border with Morocco.
>The call came as video footage showed crowds of people trying to walk around the breakwaters separating Moroccan and Spanish territory or otherwise scale the border fence. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez pledged an “immediate response.”
>Spain’s Interior Ministry said later on Thursday that its armed forces would send personnel to Ceuta to support the border guards.
>”The Armed Forces will reinforce the Guardia Civil in the exercise of its powers and any others that may be necessary to maintain civil security in the city of Ceuta,” the ministry said.
SS: Intersects with policy issues of particular importance to NL – immigration policy and enforcement, with broader relevance to the EU and relations between the countries involved.
AnachronisticPenguin on
I feel like the optics of this event are going to be far more important then the actual number of migrants.
Maybe it will be forgotten about in a week but I could see this video being used in far right messaging for years.
Acacias2001 on
!ping IBERIA
This escalated super quickly, but kind of shows how lenient immigration policies or obvious weaknesses in border security can have a drastic and sudden magnet effect
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>Officials in the Spanish territory of Ceuta on the northwestern tip of Africa on Thursday asked the government in Madrid to declare a national emergency and send the army to help secure its border with Morocco.
>The call came as video footage showed crowds of people trying to walk around the breakwaters separating Moroccan and Spanish territory or otherwise scale the border fence. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez pledged an “immediate response.”
>Spain’s Interior Ministry said later on Thursday that its armed forces would send personnel to Ceuta to support the border guards.
>”The Armed Forces will reinforce the Guardia Civil in the exercise of its powers and any others that may be necessary to maintain civil security in the city of Ceuta,” the ministry said.
SS: Intersects with policy issues of particular importance to NL – immigration policy and enforcement, with broader relevance to the EU and relations between the countries involved.
I feel like the optics of this event are going to be far more important then the actual number of migrants.
Maybe it will be forgotten about in a week but I could see this video being used in far right messaging for years.
!ping IBERIA
This escalated super quickly, but kind of shows how lenient immigration policies or obvious weaknesses in border security can have a drastic and sudden magnet effect