{"id":1849,"date":"2026-07-30T17:46:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T17:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blueroutejournal.com\/?p=1849"},"modified":"2026-07-30T17:46:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T17:46:06","slug":"dramatic-video-shows-thousands-of-african-migrants-storming-spains-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blueroutejournal.com\/?p=1849","title":{"rendered":"Dramatic Video Shows Thousands Of African Migrants Storming Spain\u2019s Border"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p>Thousands of African migrants swam to the shores of the Spanish territory of Ceuta on Thursday, leading to a chaotic scene that officials are scrambling to contain.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/blueroutejournal.com\/?p=1847\">Meet The Christian Pastors Who Endorsed Pro-Trans Muslim Abdul El-Sayed<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dramatic video shows the moment the migrants, who are mainly young men from Morocco, swam onto the shores with some using inflatable inner tubes before marching down the beach and through the nearby roads. The border breach comes after Spain\u2019s Supreme Court ruled earlier this month that migrants crossing by sea cannot be immediately deported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has been a slow trickle since the Supreme Court\u2019s ruling, but today has been an explosion,\u201d a spokesman for Spain\u2019s Guardia Civil police told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>Juan Jes\u00fas Vivas, the leader of Ceuta, urged the Spanish government to make a national emergency declaration and deploy the military to quell the migrant invasion, according to Reuters. Spain\u2019s interior ministry said it couldn\u2019t declare a national emergency as it doesn\u2019t view migration flows as a risk to national security, the Associated Press reported.<\/p>\n<p>Spanish Prime Minister Pedro S\u00e1nchez said the country \u201cis fully committed to providing an immediate response to the situation in Ceuta\u201d and that they\u2019re \u201cmobilizing all necessary resources, working with Moroccan and international authorities, and preparing the necessary measures to restore normalcy as soon as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/blueroutejournal.com\/?p=1846\">City Helps Leftist Agitators Secure \u2018Lawless Zone\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just conveyed this to President @JuanVivasLara. This is the moment to build solutions, with responsibility and cooperation,\u201d S\u00e1nchez wrote on X Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not the first time Ceuta \u2014 which, along with Melilla, Spain, are the European Union\u2019s only land borders with Africa \u2014 has experienced a mass migration event. In May 2021, the Spanish territory saw the arrival of roughly 8,000 migrants during a period of just two days, according to the AP.<\/p>\n<p>The situation doesn\u2019t appear to be coming to an end anytime soon as migrants continue staging at the Moroccan city of Fnideq to prepare to enter Spain, migrant \u200brights activist Zakaria Zarroqui told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/blueroutejournal.com\/?p=1844\">Meet The Christian Pastors Who Endorsed Pro-Trans Muslim Abdul El-Sayed<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe situation remains out of control as we speak,\u201d Zarroqui said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of African migrants swam to the shores of the Spanish territory of Ceuta on Thursday, leading to a chaotic scene that officials are scrambling to contain.Dramatic video shows the moment the migrants, who are mainly young men from Morocco, swam onto the shores with some using inflatable inner tubes before marching down the beach and through the nearby roads. The border breach comes after Spain\u2019s Supreme Court ruled earlier this month that migrants crossing by sea cannot be immediately deported.\u201cIt has been a slow trickle since the Supreme Court\u2019s ruling, but today has been an explosion,\u201d a spokesman for Spain\u2019s Guardia Civil police told Reuters.Juan Jes\u00fas Vivas, the leader of Ceuta, urged the Spanish government to make a national emergency declaration and deploy the military to quell the migrant invasion, according to Reuters. Spain\u2019s interior ministry said it couldn\u2019t declare a national emergency as it doesn\u2019t view migration flows as a risk to national security, the Associated Press reported.Spanish Prime Minister Pedro S\u00e1nchez said the country \u201cis fully committed to providing an immediate response to the situation in Ceuta\u201d and that they\u2019re \u201cmobilizing all necessary resources, working with Moroccan and international authorities, and preparing the necessary measures to restore normalcy as soon as possible.\u201d\u201cI just conveyed this to President @JuanVivasLara. This is the moment to build solutions, with responsibility and cooperation,\u201d S\u00e1nchez wrote on X Thursday.It\u2019s not the first time Ceuta \u2014 which, along with Melilla, Spain, are the European Union\u2019s only land borders with Africa \u2014 has experienced a mass migration event. In May 2021, the Spanish territory saw the arrival of roughly 8,000 migrants during a period of just two days, according to the AP.The situation doesn\u2019t appear to be coming to an end anytime soon as migrants continue staging at the Moroccan city of Fnideq to prepare to enter Spain, migrant \u200brights activist Zakaria Zarroqui told Reuters.\u201cThe situation remains out of control as we speak,\u201d Zarroqui said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1848,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Dramatic Video Shows Thousands Of African Migrants Storming Spain\u2019s Border - Blue Route Journal<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blueroutejournal.com\/?p=1849\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Dramatic Video Shows Thousands Of African Migrants Storming Spain\u2019s Border - Blue Route Journal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Thousands of African migrants swam to the shores of the Spanish territory of Ceuta on Thursday, leading to a chaotic scene that officials are scrambling to contain.Dramatic video shows the moment the migrants, who are mainly young men from Morocco, swam onto the shores with some using inflatable inner tubes before marching down the beach and through the nearby roads. The border breach comes after Spain\u2019s Supreme Court ruled earlier this month that migrants crossing by sea cannot be immediately deported.\u201cIt has been a slow trickle since the Supreme Court\u2019s ruling, but today has been an explosion,\u201d a spokesman for Spain\u2019s Guardia Civil police told Reuters.Juan Jes\u00fas Vivas, the leader of Ceuta, urged the Spanish government to make a national emergency declaration and deploy the military to quell the migrant invasion, according to Reuters. Spain\u2019s interior ministry said it couldn\u2019t declare a national emergency as it doesn\u2019t view migration flows as a risk to national security, the Associated Press reported.Spanish Prime Minister Pedro S\u00e1nchez said the country \u201cis fully committed to providing an immediate response to the situation in Ceuta\u201d and that they\u2019re \u201cmobilizing all necessary resources, working with Moroccan and international authorities, and preparing the necessary measures to restore normalcy as soon as possible.\u201d\u201cI just conveyed this to President @JuanVivasLara. This is the moment to build solutions, with responsibility and cooperation,\u201d S\u00e1nchez wrote on X Thursday.It\u2019s not the first time Ceuta \u2014 which, along with Melilla, Spain, are the European Union\u2019s only land borders with Africa \u2014 has experienced a mass migration event. 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