Ceutans Fight Back

With Ceuta abandoned by the coward socialist dirty Sánchez, the men of the city are taking things into their own hands and going after the invaders. pic.twitter.com/c8JwoRucqL

— Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 (@TRobinsonNewEra) August 28, 2026

Via the BBC:

A month after tens of thousands of migrants entered the city of Ceuta, a Spanish exclave in North Africa, there have been outbreaks of violence as tensions mount between locals and foreign arrivals.

The Spanish government has been accused by opposition parties of struggling to manage the crisis effectively.

Ceuta's residents have complained of feeling unsafe on the streets, as well as expressing concerns about the burden being placed on public services.

. . . Earlier this week, the government centralised management of the situation, overriding the local authority, after criticism that it had been slow to respond.

Defence Minister Margarita Robles also apologised to those in Ceuta who "may have felt, or who even still feel, abandoned or not sufficiently cared", as the government unveiled plans to overhaul the country's immigration laws.

Much of the recent ill-feeling in the city appears to be driven by government plans to move migrants into existing public buildings, such as sports centres, in order to be able to process their legal status in an orderly way and return those not eligible for asylum to Morocco.

Many local people, and [Mayor Juan Jesús] Vivas, oppose this initiative, due to concerns that it will move the migrants closer to residential areas.

What I'm noticing here is an approach similar to that of the UK, whereby once migrants enter the country, they're assumed to have applied for "asylum", paperwork or no, and they're placed in facilities where they remain indefinitely while being "processed". In the case of Ceuta, of roughly 80,000 who simply crossed the border illegally July 30-31, about 70,000 were summarily shipped back, while about 10,000 who chose to stay seem somehow to have acquired a legal right to be "processed" indefinitely, with some segment of those deemed OK to remain more or less permanently.

If the UK is an example of how effective immigration policies have been in limiting illegal border crossings, only about 4% of those who arrive illegally, for instance in small boats, are ever returned to their countries of origin. The question for Ceuta is why the 10,000 who crossed illegally but stayed can't be shipped back just as simply.

The video embedded above suggests that Ceutans have become frustrated with this circumstance. The problem is that no matter the good intentions of the ciizens trying to chase them out, this can only be done by trained military or police units that can encircle them in an organized way and force them back across the border. The most small groups of vigilantes or demonstrators like those below can hope to accomplish is to embarrass the government into taking action, something the government is never going to do.

I'm starting to question whether the UK-style parliamentary system used by 21 EU countries as well as Canada can cope with the Western migrant crisis. It looks like only a strong executive can mobilize government response, which is something the US has demonstrated.