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Spain’s Socialist Government Allocates €25 Million to Immigrant Minors Who Invaded Ceuta as One in Three Spanish Children Lives at Risk of Poverty

Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s Socialist government has announced an extraordinary €25 million package of public funds to care for the unaccompanied migrant minors (commonly known in Spain as MENAs) who arrived in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta during last week’s invasion.

The announcement comes as official figures show that between 28% and 33% of Spanish children live in poverty or are at risk of social exclusion—the highest child poverty rate in the European Union. That means roughly 2.6 million Spanish children are living in economically vulnerable conditions while the central government approves emergency funding for foreign minors who entered Spain during the recent border crisis.

The funding was announced Tuesday by Spain’s Minister of Inclusion, Social Security and Immigration, Elma Saiz, who said the money will be used to provide urgent assistance to the approximately 860 to 1,000 immigrant minors who remain under Ceuta’s custody following the illegal mass entry of tens of thousands of Moroccan nationals, most of them young men. The new funding comes on top of a previous €5.5 million allocation.

Saiz said the measure demonstrates the government’s “commitment” to protecting vulnerable people. Critics, however, argue that it effectively rewards what they describe as a mass illegal border incursion that challenged Spain’s sovereignty while thousands of Spanish children continue to face severe economic hardship.

Madrid Received Warnings—But Responded Too Late

The controversy intensified after reports emerged that Spain’s National Intelligence Center (CNI) had issued several warnings to the Interior Ministry in the days leading up to the border invasion about the risk of a mass crossing.

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Spain Created the Invasion and Then Pretended to Be the Victim

Spain has demonstrated precisely why government is so often the source of the crisis rather than the solution. The Sánchez government issued a sweeping royal decree to legalize hundreds of thousands of undocumented migrants, bypassed Parliament, and then acted astonished when people outside Spain interpreted the message exactly as any rational person would: enter the country illegally today and the politicians may legalize you tomorrow.

The decree did not explicitly state that every migrant arriving by boat would automatically receive legal status. It applied to undocumented migrants who could prove that they had lived in Spain for at least five months before January 1, 2026, but leave it to government to hide the fine print. Then Spain’s Supreme Court restricted the immediate expulsion of migrants arriving by sea. Smugglers and social-media accounts distorted that ruling into a promise that anyone who entered Spanish territory through the water could not be sent back, and Madrid failed miserably to contain or correct the message before people began moving. The outcome was entirely predictable.

Approximately 60,000 migrants reportedly entered Ceuta in roughly 24 hours. Ceuta normally has around 85,000 residents, so the government allowed a sudden influx equal to about 70% of the city’s entire population, temporarily pushing the number of people in this small Spanish enclave toward 145,000 almost overnight. This was not a normal migration flow. It was the sudden transformation of an entire city caused by politicians who played with human incentives and never prepared for the consequences.

People swam around the Tarajal breakwater, breached barriers, and poured across sections of the border where Moroccan enforcement had weakened. At least 57 people reportedly died from drowning or in stampedes, although the early numbers varied, and those deaths belong on the conscience of every politician who sent the signal that reaching Spain would provide a new life.

Ceuta’s facilities were already collapsing before this mass influx. The city was caring for 472 unaccompanied minors by July 28 after receiving more than 250 in only two weeks, and officials admitted that the child-protection system was operating at 1,600% of its intended capacity.

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SPAIN INVASION: Failing Socialist PM Sánchez Jets Out for Holiday as Authorities in Ceuta Are Still Chasing Migrants To Deport and Recovering Dead Bodies From the Sea

Fires are still raging; Ceuta is still invaded – but Sánchez is out vacationing.

If you thought Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez was bad because his family and his top aides are all involved in corruption probes, and his Socialist party targeted by multiple sexual harassment claims – it’s become much worse.

Sánchez is facing a barrage of criticism after jetting off to the Canary Islands for a holiday as thousands of migrant invaders still refused to leave the Spanish territory of Ceuta.

The Telegraph reported:

“Pedro Sánchez arrived at an official residence in Lanzarote for a two-week summer holiday with his wife on Saturday afternoon.

Meanwhile, migrants slept on beaches and hid in tunnels and bushes in Ceuta following an unprecedented incursion that has plunged Europe into crisis.

Spanish authorities drove tens of thousands back across the border, but bodies were still being fished out of the sea on Sunday as many of those who crossed overwhelmed asylum centers.”

But Hey! at least he published his summer playlist!

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Entitled Migrants Complain About Hospitality And Prices After Invading Spanish Territory

One of the most egregious fantasies promoted by liberals over the past several decades is the worshipful image of the desperate and grateful third world asylum seeker.  We see it constantly in movies television and popular media; the narrative of the “huddled masses, yearning to breathe free…”  This narrative has become so ingrained in western culture that it is absolutely world shattering when people find out how entitled and arrogant most migrants really are.

The flood of over 60,000 Muslim migrants from Morocco to the Spanish enclave of Ceuta has dashed a lot of progressive delusions in the past week, with migrants fresh from the beaches already looting businesses, raiding homes, attacking locals and setting fires.  European officials are reluctantly admitting that the invasion is a problem that must be corrected.   

The video evidence on social media is a crushing blow to the multicultural agenda, so much so that Ursula von der Leyen, head of the European Commission, complained about the optics of the images coming out of Ceuta on social media. 

Spanish officials have attacked the negative response of some European leaders as “selfish” and “prejudiced”, stating that the European Union would be harmed by the “polarizing” rhetoric.  

But isn’t this migrant horde exactly what European elites have been enabling for the past decade?  Yes, it is, but the Cueta incident is happening too quickly and gaining far too much public attention.  They usually prefer a “frog in a boiling pot” strategy over blatant barbarian pillaging plastered all over international news. 

But it gets much worse for the multicultural cabal, because interviews with these migrants are hitting the mainstream.  What these people have to say about their stay in Ceuta so far is mind blowing.  The entitlement is unprecedented.  Third worlders thought they were marching into a free buffet with easy access to amenities, jobs and westerners bowing at their feet. 

Instead, the illegals were met with closed businesses (for safety), prices they could not afford, no jobs and hostility from other migrants who came to Ceuta legally.  

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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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