The political dust stirred up by the dossier prepared by the Communication Office of the Ministry of the Interior is dealing a significant blow to the Executive in terms of institutional credit. The scope of the maneuver – a catalog in which dozens of journalists and political analysts are rated and identified by their ideological orientation – has proven to be of such a caliber that it has completely disabled any attempt at justification. Faced with the impossibility of presenting a reasonable argument to support the existence of such an inventory, within the coalition and in the affected department itself, nothing has been heard but apologies and an explicit admission that an indefensible mistake has been made.

“Assault,” “invasion,” “humanitarian crisis.” The qualifiers have been numerous to define the largest mass entry of migrants into Spain, in this case Ceuta, all at once. The figure, which may still grow, is 72,000 entries and 82 bodies recovered in the Spanish area. The majority, of Moroccan nationality, returned voluntarily upon discovering that on the other side of the breakwater there was not even water and food for them.

Imad Maarmi, a 35-year-old Algerian, is in a limbo called the Temporary Stay Center for Immigrants (CETI) of Ceuta. After being intercepted up to 12 times by the Civil Guard or the Moroccan Navy when trying to swim across the Tarajal border breakwater, he managed to set foot on the shore of the autonomous city last July 10. Three weeks before the mass crossing. At that time, the CETI was not yet overcrowded. Nor was Ceuta in chaos.

Pedro Sánchez’s appearance in Congress to provide explanations about the Ceuta crisis has confirmed that the Government was wrong throughout August in considering that the incident was almost resolved with the immediate Moroccan decision to…