Hundreds of migrants have entered the Spanish north African exclave of Ceuta by sea in recent days, officials said Thursday, with local television images showing them swimming around the frontier and running into the town.<\/p>\n
Migration from Morocco into Spain\u2019s two north African territories, Ceuta and Melilla, has long been a politically sensitive issue between the two countries.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are in a situation of total humanitarian and social emergency,\u201d said the president of the territory, Juan Jesus Vivas, in comments broadcast on Thursday by Spanish television.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the past few days more than 1,500 migrants, both adults and minors, have come to Ceuta by sea,\u201d\u00a0he said in other televised comments on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe reception centres are saturated \u2014 there is no more room for anyone in them and according to yesterday\u2019s figures the number of people entering is more than 200 a day.\u201d<\/p>\n
Officials could not immediately be reached on Thursday to give more recent figures.<\/p>\n
Spain\u2019s interior ministry said in a statement that several ministries were \u201cacting in coordination to respond with the utmost speed and efficiency to the situation in Ceuta\u201d.<\/p>\n
Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska would travel to Ceuta on Friday \u201cto monitor the situation\u201d and meet officials, it said.<\/p>\n
It said the government had increased its resources \u201cto guarantee security and control of migration as well as the necessary humanitarian aid, so that no lives are put in danger at sea\u201d.<\/p>\n
It said the Moroccan government was working \u201cfaithfully and permanently with Spain and collaborating closely to deal with the situation\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cMoroccan security forces are preventing the arrival of numerous people who are trying to reach Ceuta from Morocco.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hundreds of migrants have entered the Spanish north African exclave of Ceuta by sea in recent days, officials…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28032,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1150,6380,17],"class_list":["post-63056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-spain","tag-international","tag-mna","tag-spain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}