Over a thousand residents of Ceuta staged a sit-in near the city’s border with Morocco on Sunday to once again demand solutions to the unresolved mass migrant invasion of the Spanish North African exclave.

This week will mark the second month since tens of thousands of migrants illegally swarmed their way into Ceuta in late July, plunging the once-peaceful city into a complex crisis that remains far from resolved.
On Sunday, Ceuta’s residents — or Caballas, as they like to call themselves — staged a peaceful protest at the Tarajal border crossing, which connects the city with Morocco.
Rallied under the slogan ‘Sit-in at the Tarajal,” the peaceful demonstrators marched from downtown Ceuta towards the border border to manifest their discontent over the continued presence of invading migrants in their city and to demand adequate and definitive security measures for the exclave and its inhabitants — including the reinforcement of its borders to prevent another invasion from ever taking place in the future.
Footage of the protest published by El Faro de Ceuta shows a large banner bearing the colors of Spain’s flags and the phrase, “It’s not Immigration, it’s an Invasion” at the forefront of the march. Continue reading Spain: ‘It’s Not Immigration, It’s an Invasion,’ Ceuta Residents Stage Protest Sit-In

































