Spain grapples with 2,500 child migrants stranded in Ceuta after mass crossing

Approximately 1,000-1,100 unaccompanied minors enduring dire conditions with limited access to food, water, shelter, and sanitation in overcrowded reception facilities.

On the narrow edge of Europe where Spain meets Morocco, a sudden surge of some 72,000 migrants across Ceuta's border has left a small enclave of 84,000 people holding a crisis far larger than its institutions were built to bear. Though most who crossed have since returned or moved on, roughly 1,100 unaccompanied children now sleep in facilities designed for 90, their presence a quiet indictment of the distance between humanitarian need and political will. The dispute that has followed — over who warned whom, who must act, and who must receive — is an old argument wearing new urgency, while the

Spain grapples with 2,500 child migrants stranded in Ceuta after mass crossing

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