The image of tens of thousands of people suddenly entering through the gates of Europe in Ceuta is very useful for the narrative of the President of the United States, Donald Trump, whose Administration has long been warning of an “invasion” of undocumented immigrants as a consequence of the weakness of the European Union.

The Kingdom of Morocco has two great allies – the United States and Israel –, two great enemies – Algeria and the Polisario Front – and a tradition: testing Spain at very well-chosen moments in order to verify our limits and simultaneously display its power. To the tableau must be added the day chosen by Rabat for the show of force of sending, as if nothing, about 50,000 young people to a Spanish city of 83,000 inhabitants: the celebration of the ascension to the throne of Mohamed VI, whose public appearance on Thursday revealed his poor health, which fosters and anticipates underground struggles in the Majzén, the opaque elite that forms the court and takes its name from the royal residence in Rabat.

Thousands of the more than 40,000 immigrants who entered Ceuta irregularly yesterday, due to Morocco’s permissiveness, have begun returning to their country throughout the morning of this Friday, after realizing that the autonomous city, completely overwhelmed, does not have the capacity to respond to them. The same point where they arrived by swimming or on foot, the El Tarajal border breakwater, has become an open entry gate, because the flow of entries does not stop despite the military deployment, and an exit, through which to leave Spain, once it has been confirmed that they have nowhere to eat or sleep.