In the complete absence of any meaningful government action, the people of Ceuta have taken matters into their own hands.
On Wednesday night, Spanish flags filled the streets of the North African enclave. Crowds chanted for deportations. Then a column of residents pushed toward El Trampolín beach, the open-air settlement that has occupied a family shoreline for nearly a month. Tents came down. Belongings went into the sea.
Police formed a line between Spaniards and the camps — and opened fire with rubber bullets on the locals.
Thousands of locals in Ceuta took to the street today to chant:
That is the picture now coming out of a city of roughly 84,000 people that was flooded at the end of July by a crossing Spanish officials have put above 70,000 and, in some tallies, near 80,000.
The government spent weeks talking about “coexistence,” “diversity,” and “normality.” Ceuta spent those same weeks living with feces in children’s parks, hospital wards under strain, and a rising stack of sexual-assault files. On Wednesday, the patience snapped.
?? Ceuta residents have taken to the streets to protest the Spanish government’s handling of the migration crisis and demand the removal of migrants from public areas.
🇪🇸 Ceuta residents have taken to the streets to protest the Spanish government’s handling of the migration crisis and demand the removal of migrants from public areas.
Words fail me! Spain needs to support it’s own citizens and deport all these illegal immigrants or it will fall to Islam as it did centuries ago.