{"id":70818,"date":"2026-08-15T09:10:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T09:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/70818\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T09:10:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T09:10:18","slug":"spain-reinforces-ceuta-as-hardship-and-online-calls-drive-moroccan-migrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/70818\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain reinforces Ceuta as hardship and online calls drive Moroccan migrants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Migrants warn others against crossing<\/p>\n<p>Some young Moroccans who made the July 30 crossing warned others against attempting the journey.<\/p>\n<p>Driss Sadik, 22, from Fez, told Reuters he had spent five hours swimming to reach Ceuta and urged others not to follow him because of the hardship they would face.<\/p>\n<p>Adil Jamil, 17, also warned that additional arrivals would find few opportunities, although he described the mass crossing as an attempt by people to seek strength in numbers and pursue a better future.<\/p>\n<p>The July crisis widened divisions within the European Union over migration policy and fuelled anti-immigration rhetoric among far-right parties.<\/p>\n<p>The vast majority of those who entered Ceuta subsequently returned voluntarily to Morocco.<\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1786785018_999_lg-webp.webp\" alt=\"Spain reinforces Ceuta as hardship and online calls drive Moroccan migrants\" class=\"img-fluid w-100 showcaption-false\" style=\"width: 1820px; height: 1024px;\" width=\"1820\" height=\"1024\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>\n            <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nEconomic hardship and social media fuel crossings<\/p>\n<p>The attempts to reach Ceuta have been driven by a combination of economic hardship, limited opportunities and misleading information circulating online.<\/p>\n<p>Reuters reported that many young Moroccans spend years looking for opportunities to migrate, with poverty, weak public services and limited employment prospects contributing to the pressure.<\/p>\n<p>About a quarter of Moroccans aged 15 to 24 are neither in education, employment nor training, according to official data cited by Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>Some migrants interviewed after the July crossing described reaching Europe as a chance to improve their lives or support their families.<\/p>\n<p>Seventeen-year-old Adil Jamil, who participated in the mass crossing, told Reuters that risking the journey offered the possibility of building a future that he did not see at home.<\/p>\n<p>The surge was also encouraged by social-media posts about a Spanish court ruling restricting immediate pushbacks of migrants intercepted at sea while trying to reach Ceuta or Melilla.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling did not give migrants an automatic right to remain in Spain, but videos of successful crossings and misleading online claims led some people to believe that reaching Ceuta by swimming would prevent their immediate return.<\/p>\n<p>Spanish authorities have blamed criminal networks for exploiting the ruling and spreading false information, while border officials told Reuters that growing online activity and videos of migrants successfully reaching Ceuta had encouraged more people to attempt the crossing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Migrants warn others against crossing Some young Moroccans who made the July 30 crossing warned others against attempting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70819,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[27716,695,3299,203,2264,208,17],"class_list":["post-70818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-spain","tag-border-trade","tag-breaking-news","tag-ceuta","tag-migration","tag-morocco","tag-security","tag-spain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70818","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=70818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}