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Thousands of migrants in Ceuta wait in limbo while Spain figures out what to do with them

Headline from Vail Daily, on the newest of 3 developments

CEUTA, Spain — For weeks, migrants in the Spanish territory of Ceuta had gathered on a beach away from the city center, sleeping on cardboard sheets, under reed huts and guarding their few possessions in tattered plastic...

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  1. Hundreds of Migrants in Ceuta Demand Asylum After Mass Border Crossing

    Headline from American Greatness ·

  2. Spain plans transfer of 500 migrant children from Ceuta to mainland

    Headline from Al Jazeera ·

  3. Newest

    Thousands of migrants in Ceuta wait in limbo while Spain figures out what to do with them

    Headline from Vail Daily ·

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  1. Breitbart News

    Pics: Thousands of Illegal Migrants Set Up Makeshift Garbage Huts on Beach of Spanish Ceuta, Weeks After Invasion (opens Breitbart News)

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    Breitbart News's feed description

    More than two weeks after tens of thousands of illegal migrants stormed the border of the Spanish exclave of Ceuta, thousands of migrants remain in the city, resulting in the area's once pristine beach being converted into a full-on encampment with dozens of makeshift huts being constructed out of g…

  2. Al Jazeera

    Moroccan migrants stage sit-in as thousands remain stranded in Ceuta (opens Al Jazeera)

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    Al Jazeera's feed description

    Moroccan migrants are protesting in Ceuta, demanding asylum two weeks after more than a massive migrant surge.

  3. Breitbart News

    Ceuta Crisis: Hundreds of Illegal Migrants Demand Asylum Benefits (opens Breitbart News)

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    Hundreds of illegal migrants that stormed Ceuta staged a protest on Sunday demanding the Spanish government grant them immediate asylum benefits including - but not limited to - food, shelter, medical treatment, and freedom of movement to mainland Spain and beyond to the rest of Europe.

  4. American Greatness

    Hundreds of Migrants in Ceuta Demand Asylum After Mass Border Crossing (opens American Greatness)

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    Hundreds of migrants who illegally entered the Spanish territory of Ceuta last month protested Sunday, demanding asylum as Spanish authorities dealt with thousands who remain […] Source

  5. Fox News

    Spanish journalist says Ceuta residents believe government isn't doing enough to prevent another migrant rush (opens Fox News)

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    Ceuta residents say they feel scared after 70,000 migrants flooded Spain's North African enclave, as border security concerns grow amid Morocco tensions.

  6. France 24

    In Ceuta, migrants stranded at Europe’s gates await their fate (opens France 24)

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    France 24's feed description

    Weeks after some 70,000 migrants tried to cross from Morocco into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, the ones who chose to stay have settled on El Trampolin beach. They hail from various countries, speak different languages and crossed many borders to get to this strip of sand.

  7. Al Jazeera

    Spain builds tent cities for the thousands stuck in Ceuta (opens Al Jazeera)

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    Al Jazeera's feed description

    Spain is building four temporary reception sites with 1,500 places as an estimated 5,000 migrants remain in Ceuta.

  8. The Guardian

    Spain to allow 500 children in Ceuta to go to mainland in immigration U-turn (opens The Guardian)

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    The Guardian's feed description

    Madrid government changes stance after previously saying anyone who entered territory illegally would be sent back Europe live – latest updates The Spanish government has U-turned and said it will allow 500 migrant children in Ceuta to relocate to the mainland.

  9. Deutsche Welle

    Ceuta: Madrid to transfer 500 vulnerable youths to mainland (opens Deutsche Welle)

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    Spanish officials have come up with a plan to transfer unaccompanied youth in the exclave Ceuta to mainland Spain. Mostly girls, they will be placed in foster homes as well as under government care.

  10. Al Jazeera

    Spain plans transfer of 500 migrant children from Ceuta to mainland (opens Al Jazeera)

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    Ceuta leaders want children returned to Morocco, but Madrid says deporting them is 'outrageous'.

  11. France 24

    Hundreds of migrants relocated to temporary shelters following Ceuta border crisis (opens France 24)

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    Spanish authorities have cleared the El Trampolín beach area in Ceuta, relocating around 1,500 migrants and asylum seekers according to official government figures. This large-scale operation addresses the humanitarian crisis triggered when thousands of migrants crossed the border from Morocco on 30…

  12. France 24

    Spain expands Ceuta migrant shelters to ease crisis (opens France 24)

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    The Spanish government announced on Thursday the creation of shelters for 1,800 migrants in Ceuta in a bid to relieve the humanitarian crisis there following last month's influx from Morocco. Some 72,000 migrants breached the border in an unprecedented and deadly rush into the north African territor…

  13. Al Jazeera

    Spanish police evict hundreds of migrants from Ceuta beach to shelters (opens Al Jazeera)

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    Al Jazeera's feed description

    Hundreds of migrants are being removed from their makeshift camps on a beach in Ceuta, Spain.

  14. Vail Daily

    Thousands of migrants in Ceuta wait in limbo while Spain figures out what to do with them (opens Vail Daily)

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    CEUTA, Spain — For weeks, migrants in the Spanish territory of Ceuta had gathered on a beach away from the city center, sleeping on cardboard sheets, under reed huts and guarding their few possessions in tattered plastic...

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