Spain’s far-left socialist Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, has been preaching to a radicalised electorate about the joys of mass migration from the third-world.
It is a migratory pattern likely to prop up the nation’s fragile ‘flawed democracy’.
A year before 60,000 illegal young men from Morocco stormed into Ceuta, The Economist ran a piece titled, Pedro Sánchez is fighting for his political life.
The article detailed a tale of woe for the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party, which was riddled with allegations of corruption and serious dysfunction. In the year since, Spain has become a thorn in the side of America’s campaign against the Islamic terror-funding (and almost nuclear-capable) regime of Iran, with Sánchez petulantly refusing to allow the US access to military bases in the region.
A livid President Donald Trump threatened to ‘cut off all trade with Spain’ to which Sánchez gave an ‘anti-war’ speech insisting Spain would ‘not be complicit in something that is bad for the world and is also contrary to our values and interests, just out of fear of reprisals from someone’.
Spain has a complicated relationship in the region, with a formal plan to normalise and expand legal migration routes from African nations into Europe. Many of these nations have additionally complex interactions with China, Russia, and by proxy, Iran.
The plan, as stated by Spain, is not a serious document and you have to scrape off its equity, climate, and UN talking points, all of which amount to diplomatic nonsense.
Basically, Spain appears to think it can lure African nations with the promise of a legal route to Europe in exchange for economic activity. Their side quest seems to be the aspiration of civilising difficult regions to lessen the security threat to Spain.
Contrasting this document to what happened yesterday demonstrates how meaningless these waffle-laden agreements are. Australia has plenty of them too, all of which belong in the nearest shredder.
When it comes to Iran, the US did not need Spain’s assistance and instead the European Union has spent the last few months finding out the hard way that most of its security and (contemptible) superiority complex is built on the bones of the US military. A situation not dissimilar to Australia, although the Albanese Labor government has been more subtle in its undermining of the US by quietly draping its military ambitions with India under the banner of ‘space’, ‘science’, and ‘friendship’.
In a genuinely astonishing exercise in enraging friends and pissing off allies, Spain exacerbated the European illegal migrant crisis by ‘regularising’ half a million illegal migrants.
‘We’re reinforcing a migratory model based on human rights, on integration, and coexistence that’s compatible with both economic growth and social cohesion,’ said Spain’s Minister for Inclusion, Social Security, and Migration.
Sánchez’s argument for this nation-ruining decision?
‘Spain needs to choose between being an open and prosperous country, or a closed-off, poor country. It’s as simple as that. Throughout history, migration has been one of the great drivers of the development of nations while hatred and xenophobia have been, and continue to be, the greatest destroyer of nations. The key is in managing it well.’
Actually, the key is in the type of migrant a nation accepts.
The socialists know this, which is why they are careful to welcome more socialists, and not the middle-class capitalists and workers.
Spain even gave their own version of the ridiculous ‘doctors, nurses, and engineers’ pitch in which they said: ‘Almost half of our municipalities are at risk of depopulation. We have elderly people who need a caregiver and can’t find one. Companies that are looking for programmers, technicians, bricklayers, and cannot find them. Rural schools that need children so that they don’t have to close their doors.’
What they are getting are unskilled, aggressive, often criminal or poorly socialised young men who have a habit of committing gross acts of violence almost immediately. It is difficult to find statistics, as governments seem averse to recording them, but sexual assaults have risen sharply in line with migration and in Catalonia, as of 2025, it was reported that 91 per cent of convicted rapists were believed to be foreign nationals. The top nation in these figures? Morocco.
If it were Spain conducting a demographic experiment on itself, that would be one thing, but as part of the Schengen Agreement, Spain’s mistakes become everyone else’s problem.
It is my view that there is little difference between 60,000 illegal migrants storming the border in 24 hours and almost five million across the whole EU since the welcome mat was rolled out by Germany. No one is sure how many people entered Europe illegally.
Even the best approximations have a margin of error in the hundreds of thousands … a large city’s worth of people. Everyone came in. Asylum seekers. Criminals. Con artists. And Islamic terror cells. The whole situation is totally unacceptable yet generations of European leaders have tried to rebrand the catastrophe as some kind of white saviour plot under the diversity is our strength narrative.
The people of Europe are starting to think the whole thing is a crock of s- and a borderline electoral scam. It took these suicidally tolerant nations a long time to turn on their governments. Their churches have burned. People were beheaded in the street. Cartoonists and journalists were massacred. Arenas bombed. Children stabbed in the park. This is not a position they came to overnight.
When Donald Trump rose to power, he made sure to show footage of thousands of people swarming the southern border. He imprinted reality into voters’ minds because numbers like ‘five million’ or ‘a hundred thousand’ are so obscure they are difficult to visualise.
What happened to Ceuta is not the worst act of illegal migration in the EU’s modern history.
It was a visualisation that showed, clear as day, that this is not about asylum, it is invasion.
Realistically, there is little difference between a foreign army of young men wearing uniforms, and 60,000 young men storming the streets. To the citizen in their path, the risk is the same.
In just one day, parts of Ceuta were trashed. Graveyards were smashed and vandalised. Migrants were filmed climbing the walls of residential homes and beating the windows. Police and the army were called in to stop mass acts of looting. Residents were violently assaulted in the street.
One resident interviewed said: ‘As a woman, you have to live this to understand what it’s like. It’s an invasion … and there is no law.’
These were not the actions of peaceful, desperate asylum seekers.
This is not the sort of migration the international rules were written to cover following the world wars.
You will notice the silence echoing from every corner of left-wing media, here and abroad. They know what you know – that Ceuta tore the curtain on mass migration policies. That Europe is not welcoming predominately victims but rather destructive young men with few prospects of integration.
It makes no difference if Spain sends these individuals back across the border into Morocco (as they say they have done, despite locals contradicting the Prime Minister’s report).
Several nations in the European Union are seriously considering a permanent end to the Schengen Agreement in favour of re-taking control of their borders. This will put pressure back on nations along the perimeter of Europe that were used as a gateway to lucrative welfare benefits in France, Germany, and the UK.
Italy has been the most vocal on this topic, immediately reinstating checks for non-EU citizens. It is unlikely they are alone.
Right-wing parties are either in power or on the verge of power in most EU nations. Migration and the subsequent breakdown of safety, culture, and society has been the primary driver of their support. Scenes like this out of Ceuta will not be forgotten in a hurry, especially not if politicians run them in campaign videos.
Spain, which was comfortable allowing hundreds of thousands of these illegal individuals into the country quietly, and out of view of the world’s cameras, have now tried to act shocked, describing what happened yesterday as ‘a violation of territorial integrity’.
No, that has been going on for many years with the ideological approval of the government.
While embarrassment and panic forced Spain into action on this specific incident, they should have been doing the same thing for the other half-million that somehow found their way across the border.
There is some speculation that the Ceuta incident had something to do with the Moroccan government making a point about Algeria and Western Sahara territory (something similar happened in 2021), but for the purposes of Europe, it makes no difference.
Forty-eight hours of socialist failure has left 57 people dead, a city in absolute terror, an environmental nightmare to clean up, and significant physical damage to streets, buildings, and graves.
The political damage, while invisible, is extensive.
Reform and Restore have been out making hay, as has One Nation. Every European right-wing party will be doing the same.
Alexandra Marshall is an independent writer. If you would like to support her work, shout her a coffee over at donor-box.
