The PP charges against the Government for “determining to impose a camp in Ceuta”
The Deputy Secretary of Health and Social Policy of the PP, Carmen Fúnez, has charged against the Government for “determining to impose a camp” in the port of Ceuta, a fact that generates “uncertainty” and seeks to put to rest a problem “that affects and worries everyone.”
From Villanueva de los Infantes, in statements to the media together with the president of the Popular Party of Castilla-La Mancha, Paco Núñez, he stated that "the Government has the obligation to listen to the people of Ceuta."
"The Government of Ceuta has said that it understands that this is not the space to set up a camp, as the residents of the neighborhood are also saying. The port authority is also stating this and also a report from the State ports," he stated.
The port of Ceuta is a “strategic” infrastructure for the security of the people of Ceuta and the Spaniards and “it is not the space to set up a camp with thousands of irregulars who are still wandering the streets of Ceuta,” Fúnez stressed.
Faced with this rejection, Fúnez continued, the Government has not listened and has focused more on "defending the interests of Sánchez and not those of the people of Ceuta", something "tremendously serious."
“The sole command” of the Government is more focused “on opposing the government of Ceuta than on solving the problem.” “What the Government, with sole command, should be doing is not putting aside a problem but solving it,” he stressed. At this point, he has asked the Government to listen to the president of Ceuta, Juan Vivas, "and to the voice of all Ceuta residents and to dedicate itself to stopping opposing the city."
This Monday, the president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, and the rest of the party will support the president of Ceuta at an informative breakfast held in Madrid, Fúnez said.
For his part, PP president Paco Núñez has criticized that “Page's PSOE” has a “double face,” predicting that next week he will go “to many national media outlets to say how committed he is to Ceuta and how badly Sánchez is doing.” And at the same time "he sends his number two to applaud the Government in the Congress of Deputies, he sends his mayors to boycott the rallies or he sends his president of the Cortes to expel a deputy if she talks about Ceuta."
Torres says that the tents in the port of Ceuta are “temporary”
The Minister of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory, Ángel Víctor Torres, assured this Sunday that the tents that are being installed in the port of Ceuta to care for migrants are “temporary” and will be dismantled when the migrants “are returned.”
"The tents are temporary, they are huts that are going to be dismantled and therefore they are not meant to stay in Ceuta. They are being put up so that they can be returned because the sooner we file them, the sooner they can be returned. Therefore, if what we want is to remove them from the beaches and so that they can be returned, we have to bring those locations," the minister defended in statements made on the TVE channel 24 Horas.
Torres explained that the port plots and those in the La Reina area were included in a royal decree approved “unanimously” by the National Security Council and the Situation Committee, with the presence of the president of Ceuta, Juan Jesús Vivas, and members of his Government. However, he has criticized that when the works were underway, the Port Administration Council transferred technical reports contrary to its location.
"If we don't want the military hospital to be used, because the neighbors don't want it, we take it out of the decree. If we don't want the sports centers, some of which were used in 2021, because the neighbors don't want it. If we don't want the Fiscer barracks because the neighbors don't want it, or the flour factory, because the neighbors don't want it, then tell us where there are spaces so that we can do it with everyone's approval. If not, it's impossible, because you can't criticize that they are there. on the beaches, that they are sleeping on the sidewalks of the Prince, and at the same time it is criticized that spaces are opened based on consensus," he maintained.
In this sense, he has defended that it is a measure that "all" Spanish governments have taken in the face of similar situations and has reiterated that migrants cannot be returned "overnight." "It is very easy to say what you don't want, but you have to look for alternatives, and we have put them here. It is very important that this can be completed," he stressed.
Torres has assured that he maintains “permanent monitoring” and conversations “practically every day” with President Vivas, and has defended that the Government will continue to seek maximum consensus, although he has warned that it will have to make “decisions with the law in hand” to normalize the situation.
The minister has insisted that the Government's objective is to prevent the situation from becoming "chronic" and has asked for the collaboration of all administrations. “Here we all have responsibilities,” he stressed. "We do everything to achieve normality. If we all collaborate, if we don't put brakes on the wheels, everything will be much simpler and we will shorten the deadlines," commented Torres, who has not specified exactly when normality will return. “In a very few weeks,” he responded.
Regarding migrant minors, Torres has advanced that there may currently be between 1,500 and 1,600 minors already affiliated in Ceuta, although he has specified that the exact data will be announced on Tuesday.
The minister recalled that the care of minors is the responsibility of the autonomous city, although he has defended that the central government is working to facilitate their family reunification and their relocation to other communities. At this point, he has accused the PP and Vox of having voted against the modification of the royal decree-law that allowed minors to be transferred from Ceuta to the rest of Spain. “There they turned their backs on Ceuta,” said Torres, who assured that “all possibilities are open” to accelerate transfers within the legal margins.
Regarding the King's visit to the autonomous city, Torres has insisted that it will take place "in the coming weeks", as announced by the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez. The minister has expressed his hope that by then the situation will be “noticeably better” than the current one.
On the other hand, Torres has supported the position expressed by the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, that there is currently no evidence of Moroccan involvement in the massive entry of migrants into Ceuta. The minister has indicated that, if evidence appears, the Executive will act “accordingly” to it, but has demanded “rigor” and that no action be taken on the basis of “conjectures” or “indications” when it comes to issues related to national security and relations with a neighboring country. “What is required of a Prime Minister is rigor,” defended Torres, who has criticized those who, in his opinion, raise an international conflict based on “evidence and conjecture.”
In relation to the report prepared at the request of Judge María Tardón on the events that occurred during the massive arrival of migrants, Torres has avoided evaluating the judicial action and has assured that he “absolutely” respects the separation of powers. The minister has assured that the Government already had its own reports prepared before, during and after the events and has explained that the report requested by the judge was prepared without prior knowledge of the Executive and delivered at the end of August. "What is not logical is that if there are reports that affect national security, the Minister of the Interior does not have it on his desk immediately. And the president of the government does not have it, and a government does not have it. That is something absolutely demanding and demanded," he added.
Torres says that Vivas has collaborated fundamentally and avoids talking about loyalty for now
The Minister of Territorial Policy, Ángel Víctor Torres, has stated that the president of Ceuta, Juan José Vivas (PP), has worked with the Executive “fundamentally” since the massive entry of migrants, but he did not want to comment on whether he has been loyal: “There are issues that, when everything is over, we will say.”
In an interview published in La Vanguardia, the minister and person in charge of the single command to manage the crisis in Ceuta hopes to recover normality as soon as possible, insists that spaces are needed to care for migrants and affirms that Morocco is collaborating in the return of the majority, warning that if there was evidence that the Moroccan authorities had something to do with the massive entry, "Spain would act forcefully."
Regarding whether the president of Ceuta is being loyal at the moment, Torres says that “there are issues that, when everything is over, we will logically say,” specifying that he asked Juan José Vivas to work together and “essentially” they have done so.
Regarding the positions of the Popular Party, he recalls that "the PP voted against the redistribution and relocation of minors" and "therefore, it is false that they helped Ceuta, because Vivas himself asked for this relocation, and his party turned its back on him."
The minister emphasizes that spaces are needed to affiliate people and accelerate returns, which are “temporary and provisional infrastructures” that will later “regain their use.” In this sense, he details that "the land of La Reina will once again be used for housing and that of the port will remain as it was", specifying that "the will is for there to be a minimum number of fixed places in specific spaces, but they will not be those that we have enabled now." He recognizes that “there is neighborhood response,” but “enabling these spaces will reduce that pressure.” “I understand the anxiety to resolve the crisis and the need to act as quickly as possible, but that does not mean that we can ignore the law,” he adds.
He explains that the figures on migrants change daily and that “the priority is family reorganization and reunification.”
Torres defends the collaboration with Morocco and affirms that “it is evident that, if the Moroccan Government had not collaborated, 90% of those people would not have returned in the following days.”
Regarding whether the Moroccan authorities could have had something to do with the massive entry of migrants in July, the minister says that what really happened is being investigated, and when it is known it will be communicated. "It seems irresponsible to me that opposition leaders point to a Government, in this case that of Morocco, without proof or evidence. A leader who aspires to preside over the Government must also be responsible when he is in the opposition. If there was evidence, Spain would act forcefully," he concludes.
Torres denies that there is a division in the Government and highlights that he works daily with the Minister of Defense and the Minister of the Interior, defending that the Executive has been acting as the crisis has progressed.
Trump sees what is happening in Ceuta as “sad” and says that Spain does not control its border
The president of the United States, Donald Trump, described what is happening in Ceuta in the early hours of this Sunday as “sad” and said that Spain is a country with “zero control” of its borders, in reference to the massive entry of immigrants last July.
Through a publication on his network, Social Truth, Trump once again alluded to the Ceuta case, without expressly mentioning it: “What is happening in Spain is very sad, a country with ZERO control of its border.”
It is not the first time that the American president criticizes Spain, whom he has already blamed for its disagreements over defense spending or its attitude in the conflicts in Iran or Gaza. Thus, last week he described Spain as a “ruined country” and stated that the massive influx of immigrants into Ceuta last July was “very sad to see.” "Spain will be a ruined country. I have problems with Spain because it is not behaving very well with respect to NATO and it is not paying what it should pay," declared the president in an interview with the British channel GB News. Regarding Ceuta, Trump said in that medium that "what is happening there is very sad to see (...) Thousands of people breaking into their country en masse. I have never seen anything like it," he noted in relation to the massive entry of immigrants at the end of last July.
At the end of July, more than 70,000 immigrants from Morocco entered Ceuta irregularly, most of whom returned in the following days, although just over 5,000 still remain in the city waiting for their return or asylum files to be processed.
