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Over 1,500 Migrants SWARM Into Spain During Chaotic Mass Border Crossing

New York Post

Jul 30, 2026 

Thousands of migrants streamed into the tiny Spanish territory of Ceuta from Morocco on Thursday, prompting local officials to call on Spain to declare a national emergency and send the army to restore the frontier.

Spain’s interior ministry said it would guarantee the safety of citizens and the integrity of the nation’s border, but that the government could not declare a national emergency over migration concerns.

“The situation is absolute chaos,” said Rachid Sbihi, head of the association that represents Spain’s Civil Guard officers in Ceuta, who police the border. “It’s not possible to give precise numbers, but there are thousands of migrants crossing,” he said, adding that the border had “totally collapsed.”

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PC GONE MAD: Criticising migration could become CRIMINAL offence under new plan

A LEADING MEP has warned EU citizens they could be “jailed” for criticising migration policies if a new United Nations agreement is acted upon.

By Thomas Hunt

PUBLISHED: 11:13, Sat, Dec 1, 2018 | UPDATED: 19:35, Sat, Dec 1, 2018


Marcel de Graaff: Criticism of migration will be criminal offence
Speaking about the global compact on migration, Marcel de Graaff said: 'One basic element of this new agreement is the extension of the definition of hate speech. Criticism of migration will become a criminal offence.'



The United Nations Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration seeks to make immigration a universal human right. MEP Marcel de Graaff said: “I would like to say some words on the global compact on migration. On the 10th and 11th of December there will be an international congress in Marrakesh Morocco. The participating countries are set to sign this agreement and although this joint agreement is not binding it is still meant to be the legal framework on which the participating countries commit themselves to build new legislation.


“The compact for migration is legalisation of mass migration.





The United Nations Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration could be signed next week (Image: GETTY • EU)


“It is declaring migration as a human right so it will, in effect, become impossible to criticise Mrs Merkel’s welcome migrants politics without being at risk of being jailed for hate speech.”

In 2015 Angela Merkel pushed for an open-door migration policy across the EU. Critics said the move was motivated by Germany’s need to boost its workforce by at least one million.

The document is an "intergovernmentally negotiated agreement, prepared under the auspices of the United Nations, that covers all dimensions of international migration in a holistic and comprehensive manner”.

Austria, Australia, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Italy, Israel, Poland, Slovakia and Switzerland have already stated they will not sign the agreement.

U.N. migration pact seeks to promote dialogue, Vatican official says

by
Junno Arocho Esteves
11/28/2018


VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- A Vatican official said an intergovernmental pact can help countries address the current migration crisis through dialogue and concrete solutions rather than confrontation and fear.

Jesuit Father Michael Czerny, undersecretary of the Migrants and Refugee Section of the Vatican Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, said the Catholic Church is doing all that it can to help welcome, protect, promote and integrate migrants in countries where the U.N. Global Compact on Migration is formally adopted.

"The compact has a new style, a new spirit based on what we have brought," Father Czerny told journalists Nov. 28. "It is our desire to promote dialogue and not confrontation and isolation; to promote a culture of encounter and not let fear decide. This is the problem. If fear is in charge, that is a problem."

Father Czerny was among several experts who spoke about the global compact, which will be formally adopted at an international conference in Marrakesh, Morocco, Dec. 10-11.

Also present were Anne T. Gallagher, president of the International Catholic Migration Commission, and Stephane Jaquemet, policy director for the commission.

The Vatican contributed to the negotiations leading to the agreement and prepared a 20-point action plan that included concrete proposals to help governments improve the situation of migrants and refugees.

The eight-page plan contains proposals "grounded on the church's best practices responding to the needs of migrants and refugees at the grassroots level" and provides "practical considerations which Catholic and other advocates can use, add to and develop in their dialogue with governments toward the global compact."

Through the pastoral action plan, Father Czerny said, the church shared "the fruit of what we live, of what we do, of what we want and what we dream."

"This is already a step that isn't left within the confines of the church, but we wanted to bring this treasure and this hope within the process of consultation and negotiation," he said.

Father Czerny said the Vatican was pleased to see that the compact not only "reflects on important points in our document, but also the approach, the style and methodology" based on the church's principles and values.

"If you want this value, here are things that work," he said. "If you want to achieve this goal, here are ways which find that will actually get you to the goal."

The compact's multilateral approach, he added, is an example that countries working together to achieve a common goal "is an indispensable key to solve the problems in the world."

"We are happy for this success in a fragmented world," Father Czerny said.

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