The documents declassified by the Government this past Wednesday show notices from the National Intelligence Center (CNI) hours before the massive entry of migrants into Ceuta began through calls to cross the Tarajal breakwater. However, the warnings, issued via Whatsapp to the Government Delegation in the autonomous city and the Civil Guard, did not reflect the magnitude of what happened afterwards: an entry of more than 80,000 people in just 48 hours.

The Government has approved in its first Council of Ministers after the summer break two draft bills to reform the Spanish system of immigration and asylum and adapt it to the new European Pact on Migration and Asylum. The Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, presented both initiatives at the subsequent press conference as an attempt to combine an “agile, effective, and orderly” management of migratory flows with the maintenance of guarantees for migrants. The reform, he added, will also allow speeding up the processing of international protection applications and improving “the necessary management of our borders to guarantee security in our country.”