All over 8,000 migrants illegally entered Ceuta, a Spanish swath of territory bordering Morocco on the North African coast, starting on Monday, getting Spanish authorities by shock.

Spain despatched in the military and more police forces to tighten border controls and then started a mass expulsion of these who entered, among the them family members and minors.

The inflow occurred at a time of heightened tensions between Spain and Morocco in excess of the Spanish government’s conclusion to make it possible for the chief of a northern African independence team to find treatment method for Covid-19 in Spain.

What is taking place in Ceuta?

Several migrants from Africa try to reach Europe by the very same route in search of a much better everyday living, whilst the selection of migrants this 7 days was unusually superior.

Most of the migrants ended up younger males, but Spanish authorities claimed they also provided family members and some unaccompanied minors. The most ended up Moroccans. The migrants entered illegally by sea, both swimming or applying smaller boats to navigate all around a breakwater that marks the border between Spanish Ceuta and Morocco.