Ceuta: 2,000 migrant children refuse to return to Morocco
An unaccompanied minor issues an ultimatum in Ceuta, Spain: he will only return to Morocco dead. 2,000 minors and a relentless pull effect.
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Minors in Ceuta: "I will only return to Segarro feet first"
The words come from a minor and sound like an ultimatum. "I will only go back to Segarro feet first," he warns, while between 7,000 and 8,000 people in transit accumulate in Ceuta, with some 2,000 unaccompanied minors already settled on El Trampolín beach, with water, food, toilets and showers. The authorities have no humane way to evict them.
The pull effect in numbers
Demographics play against it: estimates point to some 200 million minors in Africa in that age range. For part of the analysis, the message is clear: in Spain you have everything, as one minor puts it: "In Segarro I have no home, no money, nothing. In Spain I have everything." As long as the contrast is so brutal, the pressure will not stop.
Between antiestéticar and resignation
Positions are polarizing: some demand that the border be a deterrent at all costs; others respond with irony that "his wish will have to be granted," to those who say they will return dead. In parallel, a video of a shop raid, filmed outside Ceuta, is spreading as a warning of the risks. It is not from the autonomous city, but it strengthens those demanding a hard line.
The prediction: neither the pull effect nor the calls for tough measures are going to disappear. And the cost of turning the border into a wall of antiestéticar remains unquantified by anyone.
The words come from a minor and sound like an ultimatum. "I will only go back to Segarro feet first," he warns, while between 7,000 and 8,000 people in transit accumulate in Ceuta, with some 2,000 unaccompanied minors already settled on El Trampolín beach, with water, food, toilets and showers. The authorities have no humane way to evict them.
The pull effect in numbers
Demographics play against it: estimates point to some 200 million minors in Africa in that age range. For part of the analysis, the message is clear: in Spain you have everything, as one minor puts it: "In Segarro I have no home, no money, nothing. In Spain I have everything." As long as the contrast is so brutal, the pressure will not stop.
Between antiestéticar and resignation
Positions are polarizing: some demand that the border be a deterrent at all costs; others respond with irony that "his wish will have to be granted," to those who say they will return dead. In parallel, a video of a shop raid, filmed outside Ceuta, is spreading as a warning of the risks. It is not from the autonomous city, but it strengthens those demanding a hard line.
The prediction: neither the pull effect nor the calls for tough measures are going to disappear. And the cost of turning the border into a wall of antiestéticar remains unquantified by anyone.
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