Seventy-two migrants are dead after a border surge that swelled a Spanish enclave's population by more than half, and the same open-border ideology that let it happen is at work on America's southern frontier.
Between 50,000 and 60,000 people, mostly young men, swam, scrambled, and charged into Ceuta — a Spanish territory of 84,000 on Morocco's coast — on Thursday and Friday. Some drowned. Others were crushed in a stampede at a breakwater barrier. Spanish civil guard vessels were still pulling bodies from the water on Sunday, according to AP News. Most of the migrants had walked back to Morocco by then, but roughly 400 holdouts, mainly from sub-Saharan Africa, camped on a beach with nothing to eat. The New York Times found one man rationing pistachios handed out by a police officer — the only food he'd had in nearly two days.
The establishment press covered Ceuta as a European story. The Times humanized the holdouts; the AP and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution ran calm headlines about a city
