Ceuta Receives 191 per Cent More Migrants, Not Including the 80,000 Who Crossed at the End of July
- Illegal migrant arrivals in Ceuta increased by 191 percent from January 1 to August 15, 2026, excluding the 72,000 to 80,000 migrants who invaded Ceuta in late July.
- By August 15, 2026, Spain recorded 19,972 illegal migrant entries by sea or land, a 9.4 percent decrease from 2025, with mainland sea arrivals surging by 31.1 percent, excluding the massive Ceuta invasion.
- Migrants entering Melilla rose by 230.1 percent between January 1 and August 15, 2026, while arrivals at the Canary Islands decreased by 59.5 percent, indicating migration shifts toward North African exclaves.
- Ceuta still hosts an estimated 5,000 to 10,000 migrants after the July invasion, and Spanish officials pledged to deport remaining migrants, though mass deportations had not occurred by the report date.
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Every day that passes, the irregular entry into Ceuta of some 80,000 immigrants from Morocco becomes a major problem for the Government. It is also a problem for the inhabitants of Ceuta, whose city is saturated, and for immigrants who live in...
The European Union supports the repatriation of immigrants who assaulted the autonomous city.
"We continue to insist that the expectation is that all those who remain illegally in Ceuta will be returned," says a spokesman for the Commission on Internal Affairs Read
The European Commission ensures that EU law provides for the return of all irregular immigrants
The European Commission defends that Community law contemplates this possibility and refers to the Return directive adopted last June. More information: The government moves on to the offensive against Vivas and the PP: "They have turned the migration discourse, prisoners of their alliances with the far right"
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