Moroccan police arrested 111 people attempting to breach the border into Spain's North African enclave of Ceuta this weekend — a stark reminder that sovereign nations defend their boundaries, while the Biden-Harris regime invites millions to walk across ours.
The enforcement action comes two weeks after more than 72,000 migrants surged into Ceuta in a single mass crossing, leaving at least 94 confirmed dead. Morocco's interior ministry said those detained included 109 migrants from sub-Saharan Africa and two Moroccan citizens, according to Reuters. Moroccan police used teargas to disperse groups gathered on hills near the border. Rabat warned it would prosecute organizers and participants of any further crossing attempts.
That is what border enforcement looks like. Spain, for its part, deployed over 500 additional police officers and installed a maritime barrier after the July 29–30 rush. Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska stated plainly that migrants who entered irregularly "would not be allowed to stay in the territory, travel to mainland Spain or obtain legal status," except in rare cases of extreme vulnerability. Those without a right to remain would be returned to Morocco.
A government that says "you will be returned" is a government defending its sovereignty. Meanwhile, back in America, the Biden-Harris administration has released over five million illegal border crossers into the interior of the United States.
The Warning Spain Ignored
Here's where the story gets worse for the open-border crowd: Spain was warned. Reuters reviewed six written statements and letters from border workers' unions begging the Spanish government to act after a June 29 court ruling created what the Civil Guard union AUGC called "a legal loophole" — the ruling specified that only migrants who crossed a physical barrier could be pushed back. Anyone who swam to the enclave could not be immediately returned.
Criminal cartels analyzed the legal change and adapted. "The ruling, the criminal gangs, and social media networks were an explosive cocktail," AUGC spokesperson Rachid Sbihi told Reuters. Police union SUP warned on July 10 that "criminal gangs analyse every normative and legal change and adapt their routes and methods when they notice return procedures have become slower or more complex."
Spain's government did nothing substantive until after 72,000 people had already breached the border and dozens had died. The Interior Ministry didn't respond to the unions. The government delegate offered an appointment weeks later.
Sound familiar? It should. American border agents have warned for years that cartels exploit every policy signal — every catch-and-release, every parole program, every amnesty whisper — to funnel more people north. The Biden-Harris administration didn't just ignore those warnings. It designed the loopholes.
Who Pays, Who Benefits
Morocco is now turning schools in Fnideq into barracks for security forces. Spain has soldiers guarding supermarkets in Ceuta. The cost of open borders falls on ordinary citizens and the communities forced to absorb the chaos — whether in North Africa or Arizona.
The beneficiaries are the cartels that move human beings for profit, the political class that imports future dependents, and the consultant-NGO complex that processes them at taxpayer expense. Follow the money.
Morocco arrested 111 people at a border this weekend and promised prosecutions. Our government arrested nobody, deported nobody, and called it compassionate. The difference isn't geography. It's the will to govern.
