On July 30, about 80,000 foreigners arrived in Ceuta. Almost 20 days later, between 5,000 and 10,000 still remain in a city that usually has 89,000 inhabitants. Doctors, nurses, and social services are overwhelmed. Judges, too. That is why the Standing Committee of the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) has requested reinforcements to “address the migration crisis.”
The Ministry of the Interior has raised on Tuesday to 2,168 the number of unaccompanied migrant minors registered in Ceuta since July 30. This means that the National Police have located, identified, and placed at the disposal of the government of the city of Ceuta 2,168 boys from the beginning of the migration crisis until 9 a.m. this Tuesday.
The Government enters a new phase in managing the Ceuta crisis, where humanitarian care for the people who entered irregularly in a rush becomes a priority over the threat at the border, once Morocco has demonstrated its firm control of the line.
The Partido Popular took a new step this Monday in its offensive against the Government’s management of the Ceuta crisis. The Deputy Secretary of Institutional Regeneration, Cuca Gamarra, has announced the submission to Congress of a non-legislative proposal (PNL) with eleven measures to “restore normality” in the autonomous city, including the activation of the National Security Law and the establishment of a single State command to assume coordination of the response.
In the eye of the hurricane due to the failed acquisition of a luxury penthouse through a regional public company of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso starred this Monday in a new attempt to regain control of the agenda. She did so in the vineyards of the Las Moradas de San Martín winery, in San Martín de Valdeiglesias, where she traveled to stage the region’s recovery after the devastating fires suffered in July. Although the president did not hesitate to sideline regional issues to resort, once again, to her best-known formula: shifting the focus of the controversies of her own management towards Pedro Sánchez.
The Minister of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration, Elma Saiz, announced after an in-person meeting with the President of Ceuta, Juan Jesús Vivas, that this Monday four new humanitarian care centers will be deployed on a “temporary and extraordinary” basis to provide services to immigrants who have been in the autonomous city since the end of July. The Government spokesperson also specified that the opening of these spaces will allow for housing 1,500 migrants.
The president of Ceuta, the popular Juan Jesús Vivas, has reiterated his criticisms of the Government, which he has accused of “whitewashing the reality” that the autonomous city is experiencing, and has announced that he will turn to “other State instances,” including the judiciary, if the Executive does not resolve the crisis within 30 days.
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If anything was clear on Saturday, it is that border control by Morocco makes an avalanche like the one Ceuta experienced on July 30 impossible. From the call to try again on the 15th for the massive entry into Spain, and therefore into Europe, only images remain of the…
If we look at the cold figures, as the Minister of Health, Mónica García, did yesterday, Ceuta is not suffering any healthcare collapse after the latest border assault. The healthcare pressure in the autonomous city has been decreasing since the first day of the mass crossing, when 1,149 people were attended to: last Saturday, 193 were recorded. The University Hospital of Ceuta has expanded its capacity to 212 beds, about half of which are currently empty. There are 101 patients admitted, but the immigrants occupying a bed do not reach thirty.
