Beyza Binnur Donmez<\/p>\n
05 September 2026\u2022Update: 05 September 2026<\/p>\n
Spanish authorities are preparing a new site in Ceuta to accommodate hundreds of migrants who remain on the streets following large-scale arrivals in July, local media reported Saturday.<\/p>\n
Workers were setting up two tents in an open area in the Los Rosales neighborhood, next to the Nuestra Senora de Africa nursery school, EFE news agency reported.<\/p>\n
National Police officers were deployed to prevent possible incidents, according to the report.<\/p>\n
Work began Friday after protests by employees and parents concerned about the site’s proximity to the school.<\/p>\n
The nursery is expected to open Sept. 28 with capacity for about 176 children aged up to 3.<\/p>\n
Authorities have already prepared other sites in Loma Colmenar, La Hipica and the Tarajal industrial area to accommodate migrants sleeping on the streets or in mountainous areas due to a lack of shelter.<\/p>\n
Territorial Policy Minister Angel Victor Torres said Wednesday that establishing such facilities was necessary to allow authorities to identify migrants and subsequently return most of them to Morocco.<\/p>\n
The CCOO trade union called for an alternative that would allow migrants to receive assistance while addressing families’ concerns and public services.<\/p>\n
The CSIF union, meanwhile, demanded a risk assessment and security guarantees before the nursery opens.<\/p>\n
Around 72,000 people irregularly crossed from Morocco into Ceuta on July 30-31, according to the Spanish government\u2019s official estimate.<\/p>\n
The unprecedented influx briefly brought a number of migrants almost equivalent to the enclave\u2019s population.<\/p>\n
Government estimates suggest that around 5,000 migrants who arrived during the mass crossings remain in Ceuta, a small Spanish enclave with a population of about 80,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Beyza Binnur Donmez 05 September 2026\u2022Update: 05 September 2026 Spanish authorities are preparing a new site in Ceuta…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81170,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1642,17],"class_list":["post-81169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-spain","tag-sitekeywords","tag-spain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81169","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=81169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}