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Jamie Sarkonak: Spanish socialists asked for this migrant crisis

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez is seeing the effects of his lax immigration strategy in Ceuta

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The Spanish city of Ceuta, which sits on a tiny coastal patch of North Africa within eyesight of mainland Spain, was readying to celebrate its patron saint this weekend — and then it was overwhelmed by a migrant horde.

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This is what happens when all of a country’s institutions orient themselves to help outsiders over their own people.

Jamie Sarkonak: Spanish socialists asked for this migrant crisis Back to video

The festivities were called off, but that was the least of the locals’ concerns. Some 60,000 people, primarily young men, entered the city from Morocco over several days by swimming around the border fence. They were hungry, thirsty, barefoot and without a place to stay. Videos circulated online of the masses milling about, of street violence, of men scaling........

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