Morocco: Threat or Menace?
3rd October 2026
On July 30 of this year a mass invasion of the Spanish enclave of Ceuta began. On that day and the days following, an estimated 72,000 migrant invaders, most of them sub-Saharan Africans, crossed the border from Morocco by breaking through the fence or swimming around the sea barriers.
The “migrants” who crossed into Ceuta, like those who arrive in various parts of Western Europe, are overwhelmingly young men of military age. By any reasonable definition of the word they are invaders, rather than migrants or refugees or asylum seekers. However, because they arrive unarmed and are not openly and immediately violent, they are assumed to be refugees by the media and the governments that receive them.
This legerdemain of nomenclature serves two ends: (1) the receiving governments avoid the expense and risk of opposing the invasion by military means, and (2) those extra-governmental operators whose interests are served by the replacement of the native European populations get what they have been paying the people-traffickers for.
And the invasion serves the interests of Islam, of course, but that’s a separate topic.
The behavior of the government of Spanish Prime Minister Sánchez is a strong indicator that reason #2 figures most prominently in Spain’s state policy. For whatever reason, the government wants those invaders to gain entrance to Spain and the European Union, and does its utmost to avert its eyes from the catastrophe that Moroccan intelligence has engineered in Ceuta.
However, it seems that Spanish nationalists and regional government leaders have now put a stick in the spokes of Mr. Sánchez’s bicycle. The Spanish king has arranged a state visit to Ceuta and Melilla (the other Spanish enclave in North Africa), arousing the ire of the Moroccan government. Since Morocco has never recognized Spanish ownership of the two enclaves, the government in Rabat considers the king’s visit a grave affront to the sovereignty of the Moroccan state.