At the edge of Europe's only land border with Africa, the ancient tension between human desperation and sovereign control reached a breaking point Thursday morning, as thousands of people crossed from Morocco into Spain's enclave of Ceuta within hours, and nine did not survive the attempt. Spain's government, confronted with the visible collapse of its border apparatus, dispatched its military and its ministers to a territory that had been quietly absorbing the pressure of migration for weeks before the surge made that pressure impossible to ignore. The event joins a long line of moments in wh
Spain deploys military to Ceuta as thousands of migrants surge across border
At least 9 migrants died during the mass crossings into Ceuta; thousands more faced dangerous conditions swimming and scaling borders.