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The Ministry of Defense has ordered the suspension of all leave for military personnel deployed in Ceuta following the crisis triggered in the autonomous city as a result of the irregular entry of 72,000 immigrants from Morocco in just 48 hours, according to sources from the Ministry of Defense. The General Command of Ceuta is taking this step, which requires the military to remain fully available in the coming days, in order to have maximum operational capacity in the face of the risk of a new mass crossing, which is being called for on social media for next Saturday, August 15.

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Justice, running at half speed in August, has given the Government of Pedro Sánchez a reprieve with corruption cases, and the outbreak of the Ceuta crisis due to the entry of more than 70,000 people from Morocco has refocused attention on immigration, with a visible impact on the right-wing bloc. For now, the PP and Vox, balancing carefully, manage to show more alignment than ever as they reach one hundred days of coalition in Extremadura and Aragón – the first two of the four governments formed in the latest cycle – and have avoided any friction. In these two territories, Vox is fully deploying measures rejecting immigration – from the suppression of payments to minors (Aragón) to filing legal appeals against the reception of minors (Extremadura) – although, for the moment, without causing dissonance with their partners.

Thousands of Ceutíes took to the streets this Sunday in a massive demonstration that filled the Plaza de la Constitución to demand a response to the serious situation the city is facing after the massive entry of migrants on July 30 and to send a message that has echoed throughout the afternoon: “Enough already. Ceuta does not surrender.”

The diplomatic clash and rising tension between Rome and Madrid over the Ceuta migration crisis has led to an exceptional situation in the middle of summer, with the suspension of the Schengen area between both countries and the reintroduction of border controls. The Government established them yesterday randomly at some air and sea border posts for travelers coming from Italy. This is the response to the refusal of Giorgia Meloni’s Executive to lift the suspension it decreed a few days ago of the Schengen area with Spain.

The vice presidents of Extremadura, Castilla y León, and Aragón, all from Vox, sent separate letters yesterday to the Minister of Youth and Childhood, Sira Rego, to inform her that they will not attend the sectoral commission on Childhood and Adolescence on August 13, which will address the situation of migrant minors in Ceuta, and that they reject their transfer to other communities.

“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.

The president of Ceuta, Juan Vivas, estimated this Saturday that between 8,000 and 11,000 people currently remain in the city due to the massive entry on July 30 and has demanded that the central government expedite their return to Morocco, considering it the “only way out” to resolve an “absolutely unsustainable” situation.

The border controls that have been carried out since this Saturday, after the Government decided to suspend Schengen with Italy due to the diplomatic crisis following the massive entry of immigrants in Ceuta, are carried out at the airplane door – at the exit of the access walkway to the aircraft, in the so-called finger – without causing a diversion of the passenger flow to an external border control area, according to the Ministry of the Interior. The National Police officers are carrying out these controls randomly, not systematically, on passengers who are nationals of third countries, in order to verify that they have a valid passport and, if applicable, a visa or residence card.