Spain regains control after deadly migrant surge kills 57 at Ceuta border

On the narrow strip of land where Europe meets Africa, fifty thousand people pressed toward the Spanish enclave of Ceuta in a single night, and when the movement stilled, fifty-seven were dead. The surge — met with batons, tear gas, and military deployments — exposed the fragile architecture of European migration policy, as most who crossed returned to Morocco not by force but by the absence of anything waiting for them on the other side. What unfolded at Ceuta was not merely a border crisis but a reckoning with the distance between the idea of refuge and its reality, and with the political fa