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Spanish Socialist Leader Sánchez Accuses Fellow EU Leaders of Being ‘Selfish’ over Response to Ceuta Migrant Crisis

Socialist Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has accused fellow European Union leaders of being “selfish” for expressing concerns and enacting border restrictions in the wake of tens of thousands of illegal migrants flooding into Ceuta this week.

The North African city of Ceuta, which stands as a territorial exclave of Spain bordering Morocco, was overrun this week by a flood of aliens seeking to reach European Union territory. Estimates put the number of illegal entries at upwards of 60,000, overwhelming the border protections and nearly equalling the entire population of the city within just days.

The dramatic scenes of tens of thousands of African migrants breaching the gates of EU territory recalled memories of the Europe Migrant Crisis of 2015 and immediately sparked a wave of condemnations of the Socialist government in Madrid from fellow EU leaders, who demanded that Spain protect their common border. Some went even further, with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni enacting emergency border controls with Spain, suspending the free movement under the Schengen agreement.

On Saturday, a group of 22 European leaders issued a letter calling for an emergency meeting on the issue of Ceuta. The leaders warned of the potential “repercussions of uncontrolled crossings of the border” at the Spanish exclave, which the letter argued, “may encourage other attempts of this kind.”

“We cannot allow massive and uncontrolled crossings, the instrumentalisation of migration, or other hybrid threats that create the perception that it is possible to enter the European Union illegally and that an illegal entry can later become a legal stay,” the letter stated.

In a letter of his own, addressed to EU Commission Chief Ursula von der Leyen and European Council President António Costa, Prime Minister Sánchez claims that within two days, his government has “fully restored control of the border” and has returned “almost all” illegal immigrants who crossed in recent days, while accusing his critics of being “selfish”.

The Spanish PM said per El Mundo that the decision to impose border restrictions was motivated by “prejudices, fake news, ignorance, or political interests,” and goes against “European Law, humanitarian Law, and the principles of solidarity” among member states.

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African Migrants Loot Homes and Stores in Ceuta, Defecate in the Streets, Attack Citizens

Almost immediately after tens of thousands of Africans invaded the Spanish city of Ceuta, all hell broke loose, with chaos flooding the streets. 

As The Gateway Pundit reported, European leaders are panicking over the chaos, with Spain’s Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez declaring that Spain is “under attack” after more than 50,000 Africans poured across the small city’s border.

The world is finally getting a wake-up call– years after watching tens of millions of violent criminals flood the United States to rape and pillage our country.

Video from the invasion on Thursday shows the thousands of military-aged African migrants, all men, pouring across the wide-open border.

Another video shows thousands of invaders lined up on the beach and crossing into Spanish territory by simply walking around the fence or swimming, with no border enforcement.

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Did Israeli And Or American-Linked Operatives Help Orchestrate Spain’s Migrant Crisis As Revenge For Sánchez’s Anti-Israel/Iran War Policy?

Thousands of migrants poured into Spain’s North African enclave of Ceuta this week, killing at least 18 and overwhelming local authorities. Spain’s Interior Ministry refused to declare a national emergency. And, Israel’s UN Ambassador Danny Danon posted a tweet seen by 3.6 million people rubbing Spain’s nose in it.

That sequence of events may not be coincidental.

Geopolitical analyst Bruno Maçães — a former Portuguese Secretary of State for European Affairs — noted on X that analysts at Israeli-funded think tanks had explicitly argued in April 2026 that Israel should help Morocco take over Ceuta as direct retaliation against Spain. The Ynet News analysis Maçães cited framed Morocco’s longstanding territorial claim on Ceuta as a lever Israel could pull against Madrid for its anti-Israel foreign policy.

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Spanish Minister Fuels Blame Toward Israel for Ceuta Crisis After Israeli U.N. Ambassador Criticizes Madrid

Spanish Transport Minister Óscar Puente fueled online claims blaming Israel for Spain’s migrant crisis in the North African enclave of Ceuta on Friday after Israeli U.N. Ambassador Danny Danon criticized Madrid’s handling of the border emergency, escalating an already tense diplomatic dispute between Jerusalem and Spain.

The exchange followed Danon’s criticism of Spain after Madrid declared a state of emergency and deployed military forces to Ceuta following an unprecedented surge of migrants crossing into the Spanish enclave from neighboring Morocco. Puente’s cryptic response helped fuel conspiracy theories circulating on Spanish social media alleging Israel — and in some cases the United States — was behind the crisis.

Danon accused Spain of hypocrisy as Madrid struggled to contain one of Europe’s largest recent illegal migration surges.

“Spain, which never misses an opportunity to lecture Israel, has declared a state of emergency in Ceuta following the crisis over its immigration policy,” Danon wrote on X.

“Maybe before it continues lecturing us, it’s time it explained to the world why it still maintains colonial enclaves in Africa,” he added, referring to the Spanish territories of Ceuta and Melilla on Morocco’s Mediterranean coast.

Puente, one of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s most outspoken ministers on social media, reposted Danon’s remarks on X and added only: “Well, things are starting to become quite clear.”

While the minister did not elaborate, Spanish media widely interpreted the post as lending credibility to online claims blaming Israel for the migrant crisis.

Those claims spread rapidly after several Spanish politicians and commentators alleged Israel was seeking to retaliate against Sánchez’s government over its criticism of Jerusalem’s war against Hamas, while others suggested the United States also stood to benefit politically from instability in Spain. No public evidence was presented supporting those allegations.

Among those advancing similar claims were commentator Carolina Alonso, who alleged Israel was attempting to undermine Sánchez’s government through Morocco; Spanish lawmaker Gabriel Rufián, who argued the migration crisis was serving American and Israeli interests; journalist José Vizner, who questioned whether the crisis represented “revenge” against Sánchez; and commentator Rubén Gisbert, who argued Morocco’s posture toward Ceuta and Melilla shifted as Spain adopted increasingly hostile positions toward Israel.

Israel’s Foreign Ministry quickly distanced itself from Danon’s remarks.

Israeli Chargé d’Affaires Dana Erlich wrote on X that Israel was “closely monitoring the situation in Ceuta,” but stressed that “the comment made by Israel’s Ambassador to the U.N. on the issue does not represent the position of the State of Israel.”

The diplomatic dispute unfolded as Spain confronted its worst migration crisis in Ceuta since 2021 after Spanish officials said roughly 49,000 migrants crossed into the North African enclave from Morocco in less than 24 hours.

Videos circulating online showed migrants swimming around border barriers, using inner tubes to reach Spanish territory, and forcing their way through land crossings as local authorities struggled to respond.

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Spain’s Migrant Invasion: How Sanchez Is Erasing A Nation

Spain is being transformed — and not by the will of its people.

While Germany, Italy, France, and Denmark have all moved to tighten their borders in response to years of uncontrolled mass migration, Spain’s socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez is running the opposite play. In January 2026, he used a royal decree — bypassing parliament entirely — to grant legal residency status to an estimated 500,000 undocumented migrants. The measure applies to anyone who can prove they lived in Spain for at least five months before the end of 2025 and had filed for international protection. Some analysts believe the actual number of beneficiaries could be significantly higher than the government’s official estimate of 840,000 illegal migrants currently living in the country.

The decree, agreed between Sánchez’s Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE) and its hard-left coalition partner Podemos, was described by critics as the most reckless act of demographic engineering in modern European history. It is Spain’s seventh mass regularization in 40 years — a cycle that critics argue functions as a permanent pull factor for illegal crossings.

The Canary Islands: Europe’s Bleeding Edge

The entry point for the majority of illegal sea arrivals into Spain is the Canary Islands — a Spanish archipelago sitting just off the northwest coast of Africa, closer to Senegal than to Madrid. The Atlantic crossing from West Africa, which can take up to 12 days in open boats, has become the deadliest migration route on earth.

In 2024 alone, 24,000 migrants arrived on the tiny island of El Hierro — a community of fewer than 11,000 permanent residents — representing more than half of all Canary Islands arrivals and roughly 10 percent of all irregular sea arrivals in the entire European Union that year. The islands, overwhelmed and under-resourced, have been in a state of permanent emergency for years.

More than 3,000 migrants died on routes to Spain in 2025 alone, according to the NGO Caminando Fronteras — 1,906 of them on the Atlantic route to the Canary Islands. By mid-2026, over 1,300 more had already perished. The death toll is not a humanitarian abstraction. It is the direct consequence of a system that rewards illegal crossings with amnesty.

Spain’s government claims progress: irregular arrivals to the Canary Islands fell by roughly 70 percent in the first half of 2026 compared to 2025, following bilateral agreements with several West African nations. In Q1 2026, arrivals were down 82 percent year-on-year. Sánchez has pointed to this as vindication of his approach. Critics respond that the numbers will surge again the moment word of the latest amnesty spreads through the migrant networks — as it has after every previous regularization.

The Crime Data Spain’s Government Doesn’t Want You To See

While the Sánchez government promotes mass regularization as an economic and humanitarian necessity, a growing body of official crime data tells a very different story about the social costs of Spain’s migration policy.

A 2025 study by the CEU-CEFAS Demographic Observatory — drawing on Spanish government crime statistics from 2010 to 2024 — found that foreigners in Spain commit per capita approximately 500 percent more rapes and 414 percent more murders than Spanish nationals. Foreigners make up roughly 31 percent of Spain’s prison population despite representing a far smaller share of the total population.

In Catalonia, Spain’s most populous region, the data is particularly stark: 91 percent of convicted rapists are migrants, according to the CEU-CEFAS report, yet migrants make up only about 17 percent of the regional population. Spain recorded 5,222 rapes in 2024, according to the newspaper La Razón. A decade earlier — before the mass migration waves of the mid-2010s — the figure was 1,239. That is a 322 percent increase.

Spain’s overall crime rate has risen in lockstep with migration numbers every year. The government has not disputed the statistics. It has simply declined to draw any conclusions from them.

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Spain Deploys Military To Chaotic Ceuta as the Enclave Is Completely Overrun by Migrant Invaders – Morocco Reportedly Agrees To Take the Illegals Back

The invasion of Europe is not a metaphor, as the whole world can see.

We have been reporting here on TGP on the absolute catastrophe that is ongoing in the North African Spanish enclave of Ceuta, where tens of thousands of military-age male migrants from Morocco and Algeria have invaded the town.

After local authorities lost control of the situation, Spain is deploying its military in a ‘major security response’.

Officials have confirmed that at least nine people died during the crossings.

Fox News reported:

“The Spanish government said the Armed Forces will support the Civil Guard in restoring order after local officials warned the city could no longer handle the influx. Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska are expected to visit Ceuta as Madrid scrambles to contain the crisis.

[…] ‘The situation is absolute chaos’, Rachid Sbihi, who heads an association representing Spain’s Civil Guard officers in Ceuta, told The Associated Press. ‘It’s not possible to give precise numbers, but there are thousands of migrants crossing’.

[…] Authorities have not identified a single cause for the sudden surge, though Ceuta officials have pointed to a recent Spanish Supreme Court ruling that limits the immediate return of migrants who arrive by sea without due process. Some migration advocates, however, questioned whether the ruling alone could explain the dramatic increase, arguing many migrants would likely have been unaware of the decision.”

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Spain: 60% Reject Current Socialist Government While 30% Find It ‘Disastrous’

A survey in Spain found six out of ten Spaniards hold a negative opinion of Spain’s current legislative term and socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s government, with as many as a third strongly condemning the legislature as “disastrous,” “nefarious,” and “ruinous.”

Spain will hold new elections next year, expected to occur no later than August 22, 2027. Although the Spanish conservative People’s Party obtained the most amount of seats in the August 2023 elections, Sánchez and the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE) managed to cling to power by securing alliances with minority leftist parties — allowing PSOE to secure enough votes for Sánchez’s current four year term.

PSOE and the Sánchez administration, however, find themselves navigating through an extremely complex moment as the last year of the current parliamentary term approaches. The Spanish socialists have been rocked by several corruption scandals and widespread rejection — most notably, with regards to the widely revile mass amnesty plan that saw some 1.2 million illegal migrants apply to receive “legal” status in Spain and all the benefits that it entails.

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ENDLESS SOCIALIST SCANDALS: Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez’s Brother David Convicted of Nepotism and Administrative Misconduct, Banned From Public Service for 9 years

Another charge of influence peddling was dismissed, so no prison term was imposed.

While Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez goes around the world posing as a statesman in NATO and EU forums, back home, his party, his inner circle, and even his family are endlessly plagued with corruption scandals and investigations.

Less than a month ago, reports arose about Sánchez’s wife’s grift prosecution: Spanish PM Sánchez’s Wife, Begoña Gomez, Can’t Leave the Country While Standing Trial for Corruption

And today (14), David ‌Sánchez, Pedro’s brother, was convicted of nepotism and administrative misconduct and banned from holding public office for nine years.

Reuters reported:

“The ruling deals a fresh political blow to the Socialist premier, whose government and ​inner circle have faced corruption investigations and scandals over the past two years. Last ⁠month, a former close aide to Sánchez was sentenced to 24 years in prison in a ​separate corruption case.

David Sánchez was accused of benefiting from an appointment tailored to him because of ​his family connection to the prime minister, who when the job was awarded had just been elected leader of the Socialists when they were still in opposition. The prime minister has dismissed the case as part of a politically ​motivated campaign driven by the far right.”

The Badajoz court found that the position was created without administrative need, serving only the PM’s brother’s personal interests.

“The defendants ‌engaged ⁠in a grossly arbitrary exercise of power with the sole aim of favoring specific individuals,” the ruling said, adding that one of the posts was later modified to accommodate David Sánchez’s interest in opera.

The court dismissed the charge of influence peddling, which could have carried a prison sentence. Right-wing pressure ​groups had sought prison ​time for Sánchez, while ⁠prosecutors requested the case be dismissed.”

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Spain: 70% Of Tested ‘Unaccompanied Minor’ Immigrants Are Actually Adults

The Spanish city of Madrid has delivered a stark confirmation of long-standing suspicions about unaccompanied foreign immigrants claiming to be minors. When this group undergoes rigorous medical age verification, 70 percent turn out to be adults over 18.

This is not a handful of isolated incidents but a systemic pattern that has become the norm in Spain’s capital. The findings, detailed in official data and reported by Spanish outlet El Debate, underscore a growing “farce” in the handling of unaccompanied minor claims across the country.

In 2024, authorities in the Madrid region opened 848 age-determination proceedings for individuals claiming to be unaccompanied foreign minors — a sharp increase from 482 the previous year. More than half of these cases were archived because the claimants abandoned the process before completing the key medical test, which is a wrist X-ray for bone age assessment.

Of the 378 individuals who underwent the test, only 112 were confirmed as minors, while 266 were determined to be adults — approximately 70 percent.

The number of detected frauds tripled compared to the prior year. Since 2018, Madrid has handled more than 11,000 unaccompanied foreign minors in its protection system. In 2024 alone, 2,442 new young people entered the system. The regional government has already filed 29 police complaints after its own checks revealed adults improperly placed in minor-protection facilities.

Nationally, the Fiscalía General del Estado reported 7,562 pre-procedural age-determination cases in 2024. Of these, 2,457 concluded the individuals were adults, while many others either abandoned proceedings or received the benefit of the doubt.

Real benefits for fraud

As Remix News has reported in the past, claiming minor status grants significant advantages under Spanish and EU rules, including placement in specialized protection centers with housing, education, healthcare, and legal safeguards.

There is also significantly greater difficulty in deportation; and, in many cases, pathways to family reunification or residence permits unavailable to adults. Many claimants disappear from centers once age verification begins, avoiding confirmation of their true age.

Similar fraud seen across Europe

This Madrid revelation is far from unique. Remix News has extensively covered parallel cases of age fraud by migrants claiming unaccompanied minor status throughout Europe, often involving the same nationalities, notably Algerians, Moroccans, Tunisians, and Afghans.

France has seen some of the starkest figures. In the Marne department, bone analyses of 240 individuals claiming to be unaccompanied minors found that 80 percent (192 people) were actually adults.

French MP Charles de Courson highlighted the financial burden in a parliamentary speech, “Eighty percent of unaccompanied migrants in France’s northeast Marne department who declared themselves thus are not minors, with the cost of caring for these 160 false minors costing €5,000 per month, which equals for €60,000 per year for each one.”

A separate 2019 experiment by the Paris prosecutor’s office examined 154 formally identified “minors” and found 91.6 percent (141) were adults via medical exams. Prosecutors noted that adults were systematically exploiting the protective regime established for minors under a 1945 law.

Belgium reported comparable results. A study of data from Justice Minister Koen Geens showed that of 4,563 migrants declaring themselves minors, authorities doubted 2,546 claims. Age tests on a sample revealed that 73.7 percent were over 18. Flemish MP Tom Van Grieken stated bluntly: “Asylum seekers guilty of age fraud should be denied the right to asylum.”

Sweden recorded an even higher rate: health authorities found 84 percent of tested “child migrants” were actually 18 or older. In Germany, forensic examinations in Münster showed around 40 percent of examined “unaccompanied minor refugees” were demonstrably adults, with many sharing suspicious January 1 birthdates — a common indicator of fabricated identities.

Remix News has also documented specific incidents in Spain itself that align with this pattern. In one Madrid case reported in October 2025, a Moroccan man accused of raping a 14-year-old girl claimed to be 17; age verification determined he was likely 23, with 14 prior convictions, leading to his case being transferred to adult court.

A European Parliament fact-finding mission to Spain’s Canary Islands similarly found that roughly half of unaccompanied minors there were actually adults, highlighting failures in age assessment amid high illegal arrivals.

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Madrid Requests European Army

Spain’s latest position perfectly illustrates what has become one of the great contradictions within NATO. Madrid wants Europe to build its own military capable of acting independently of Washington, yet Spain has consistently resisted NATO’s higher defense spending targets while expecting the alliance to continue providing collective security.

Spain is again championing the idea of a European army while insisting it can meet its NATO obligations without matching the spending commitments accepted by virtually every other member. Europe cannot demand strategic independence while simultaneously asking someone else to pay the bill.

I have said for years that Europe has always dreamed of becoming an independent military power. Long before the war in Ukraine, Brussels was discussing a unified European army, common procurement, centralized command, and eventually a foreign policy independent of Washington. Every crisis has been used to advance that objective. The migration crisis expanded Brussels’ authority. COVID centralized health policy. The Ukraine war accelerated fiscal integration through joint borrowing and massive defense spending. Now the argument is that Europe needs its own army because it can no longer rely entirely on the United States. That has been the destination all along.

Ironically, Spain is making the argument while remaining one of NATO’s weakest contributors. Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez rejected the alliance’s new goal of spending 5% of GDP on defense by 2035, insisting Spain can fulfill its obligations while spending only about 2.1% of GDP. That position has frustrated allies who argue collective defense cannot function if some members continually expect others to shoulder the burden. NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte has repeatedly argued that Europe’s security environment now requires substantially greater investment across the alliance.

Europe must ultimately decide what it wants. If it genuinely intends to build an independent military capable of defending the continent without American leadership, then it must also accept the enormous financial burden that comes with that decision. A modern European army would require hundreds of billions of euros in new spending, integrated command structures, common procurement, expanded ammunition production, satellite capabilities, cyber warfare, missile defense, logistics, and nuclear deterrence. None of that comes cheaply.

The greatest long-term strategic challenge is no longer Europe. It is the Indo-Pacific. China is rapidly expanding its navy, modernizing its nuclear arsenal, increasing pressure on Taiwan, and competing directly with the United States across technology, manufacturing, shipping, and finance. America cannot simultaneously concentrate the majority of its military resources in Europe while preparing for a potential confrontation in Asia.

If Europe believes Russia represents its primary existential threat, then Europe should take primary responsibility for confronting Russia. That is neither anti-European nor isolationist. It is simply strategic reality. The United States should remain an ally, but not Europe’s permanent security guarantor. Washington has carried that burden since the end of the Second World War. Meanwhile, European governments repeatedly criticize American foreign policy while relying upon American aircraft carriers, intelligence, logistics, nuclear deterrence, and taxpayers whenever a genuine crisis emerges.

The post-1945 order is fragmenting. Nations are increasingly pursuing regional spheres of influence rather than a single American-led global system. Europe seeks strategic autonomy. China seeks dominance in Asia. Russia seeks influence over its near abroad. The United States must decide where its vital interests truly lie. If Europe wants its own army, then let Europe build it. America’s focus should increasingly shift toward maintaining stability in the Pacific, where the balance of power over the next several decades is far more likely to determine the future of the global economy than another generation of underwriting European defense.

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