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Spain Sends Troops to Ceuta to Deter Influx of Mostly Moroccan Migrants
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May 19, 2021
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2:43Now PlayingSpain is sending troops and more police to one of its North African enclaves after a record number of mostly Moroccan migrants entered the territory.
Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska said Tuesday that police numbers in Ceuta, a tiny peninsula across the Strait of Gibraltar and bordered by Morocco, will be raised by around 20%, or 200 officers. Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said soldiers are also being deployed.
Close to 7,000 people, including hundreds of children, entered the territory by swimming ashore or using rubber dinghies on Monday.
The influx is likely to further inflame normally close relations between the two countries that took a downturn earlier this month, when Moroccan officials criticized Madrid for hosting the leader of a movement fighting for independence in Western Sahara, a former Spanish colony that’s claimed by Rabat.
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