{"id":64793,"date":"2026-08-02T16:33:48","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T16:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/64793\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T16:33:48","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T16:33:48","slug":"trump-administration-slams-spains-sanchez-for-migrant-invasion-of-ceuta-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/64793\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump administration slams Spain\u2019s S\u00e1nchez for migrant \u2018invasion\u2019 of Ceuta \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThis unacceptable incident is the direct result of the Spanish Government\u2019s deliberate efforts to enable and facilitate mass illegal migration into Europe. We are considering actions to defend Americans at home and abroad from this threat and stand ready to assist other European allies considering similar options,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/StateDept\/status\/2083197495119626476\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">wrote<\/a> the department.<\/p>\n<p>S\u00e1nchez will hardly be surprised by the scathing American reaction, having emerged as the fiercest Trump critic among EU leaders, slamming U.S. military action in the Middle East and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/madrid-bars-us-from-using-spanish-bases-to-attack-iran\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">barring U.S. military planes from using Spanish air bases<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank God POTUS was elected and our country\u2019s border no longer looks like this. These images out of Spain are an unfortunate reminder of the consequences of mass migration and the radical left-wing globalist policies that have enabled the Invasion of the West,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JDVance\/status\/2083176076654592403\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">wrote<\/a> U.S. Vice President JD Vance.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Department of Homeland Security made the same argument, saying: \u201cIf Spain had their own President Trump, this wouldn\u2019t be an issue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. criticism came as the situation in Ceuta <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/spain-migration-crisis-ceuta-morocco-border-crossings\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">escalated<\/a> into a Europe-wide political flashpoint in little more than a day. Neighboring governments moved to tighten their response on Friday, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/ceuta-crisis-migration-france-spain-border-checks-schengen-unity-morocco\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">France<\/a> restoring border checks and Italy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/migration-crisis-spain-italy-clash-over-schengen-morocco-cueta\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/migration-crisis-spain-italy-clash-over-schengen-morocco-cueta\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">calling<\/a> for Spain to be suspended from the Schengen area, exposing divisions over the bloc\u2019s migration policy.<\/p>\n<p>Former Trump adviser and world\u2019s first trillionaire Elon Musk initially <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/elonmusk\/status\/2083034836097192096\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">shared<\/a> a video comparing footage from the Ceuta migrant crisis with scenes from the 2013 zombie film \u201cWorld War Z.\u201d \u201cWow, the situation in Spain looks crazy!\u201d he posted.<\/p>\n<p>Clarifying the comparison was a joke, he then <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/elonmusk\/status\/2083039060554072471\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">shared<\/a> footage from 2023, showing hundreds of Venezuelan migrants attempting to cross into the U.S., captioning it: \u201cThis is what America looked like under Biden.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThis unacceptable incident is the direct result of the Spanish Government\u2019s deliberate efforts to enable and facilitate mass&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64794,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[194,14517,826,4738,203,205,21207,17,209,26],"class_list":["post-64793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-spain","tag-donald-trump","tag-elon-musk","tag-immigration","tag-jd-vance","tag-migration","tag-pedro-sanchez","tag-refugees","tag-spain","tag-spanish-politics","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64793","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=64793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}