Very low quality sources say things like:
- The police are shipping people to the border
- These are all criminals that the police are letting get away so they don't have to deal with them
- People are fleeing the absolute monarchy and poor economic conditions
If anyone has any high quality sources about the above please post them!
"Spain says huge surge across border into enclave has reversed" - https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/spain-morocco-halt-dead...
The context is that could not happen without the cooperation and orchestration by the Moroccan government, and its a kind of warning. Its a warning on recent warm up of relations of Spain with Algeria [2]. Something that is of great strategic concern due to historical disputes over the Western Sahara. [1]
The Spanish prime minister of course is totally compromised, and weak in all fronts.
His wife will stand trial for corruption [3] and he had to cynically support a measure to do regularization program for undocumented migrants that could get up to 1 million getting regular papers. Independently of the merits or not of the program, he did this agreement with the left-wing party Podemos in January 2026. Sánchez leads a minority government and depends on smaller parties for parliamentary support, so reaching deals with Podemos basically allowed him to continue in government.
[1] - "Migration As A Weapon In The Spanish-Moroccan Crisis" - https://tdhj.org/blog/post/migration-weapon-spain-morocco-cr...
[2] - https://www.france24.com/en/africa/20260720-spain-pm-sanchez...
[3]- "Wife of Spanish PM forbidden to leave country as corruption probes pile up" - https://edition.cnn.com/2026/06/21/europe/spanish-pm-wife-co...
For half of them going back: TFA
"Some 48,000 of the roughly 50,000 people who crossed illegally into Ceuta since early Friday have already been returned to Morocco, as Madrid condemned the mass crossing as an "attack" on its sovereignty."
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2026/07/31/around-25000-m...
much ado about nothing