Migrants cross into Spain’s Ceuta enclave from Morocco
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More than 300,000 people have now been displaced by climate-change driven wildfires in France and Spain after new evacuation orders were issued.
Spanish authorities said that despite the record crossing of migrants, almost everyone who entered illegally has returned to Morocco.
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Conservative leaders across Europe react as an estimated 60,000 migrants crossed into Ceuta from Morocco within 24 hours, threatening its open-border policies.
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Spain and Morocco reinforced the border fence of a Spanish enclave after around 49,000 people arrived by sea in one day. Dozens of bodies have been recovered, Spanish authorities said.
Wildfires are burning through the two countries at a record pace.
Chart: The Economist The immediate trigger for the surge was a ruling by Spain’s Supreme Court that a law allowing the prompt handing back of migrants who breach frontier barriers at Ceuta and Melilla,
Spain’s prime minister has rushed to Ceuta to defuse a growing crisis after an estimated 60,000 migrants poured into the Spanish enclave in north Africa from Morocco in a single day.
President Donald Trump said during a Cabinet meeting that similar scenes of migrants flooding into Spain could play out in the U.S. if Democrats gain power.