How a social media campaign triggered huge migrant surge on Ceuta
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Nearly a week after tens of thousands of migrants engaged in a mass entry from Morocco into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta in North Africa, questions have swirled online about the conditions that triggered the incident.
Critics of Spain’s left-wing Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez were quick to capitalise on the crisis, painting a picture of an “invasion” of non-Western migrants facilitated by purportedly lax border policies.
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Nearly a week after tens of thousands of migrants engaged in a mass entry from Morocco into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta in North Africa, questions have swirled online about the conditions that triggered the incident.
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Critics of Spain’s left-wing Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez were quick to capitalise on the crisis, painting a picture of an “invasion” of non-Western migrants facilitated by purportedly lax border policies.
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