Hugh Fitzgerald: Spanish Socialists, Mugged By Reality, Reverse Their Immigration Policy

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When the Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez assumed office last May, he soon showed that, while other countries in Europe were tightening their immigration policies, open-hearted Spain would be doing the opposite. He soon had a chance to demonstrate his country’s generosity. In mid-June, Italy, enforcing the new strict policy on immigration of Mario Salvini, the Minister of the Interior, turned away the rescue ship Aquarius with 630 sub-Saharan Africans aboard. Spain promptly allowed the ship, escorted by two vessels of the Spanish navy, to land at Valencia, and the migrants to disembark. Since May, this policy has continued, with an average of 230 African (and some North African) migrants entering Spanish territory from Africa each day. Some 26,000 have come by sea, smuggled in on small boats, or picked up from unseaworthy vessels by European rescue ships who deliver them to Spanish ports. Others have taken a land route, through Morocco. Once they are in Morocco, they then attempt to enter the enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla that, though surrounded by Moroccan territory, have been Spanish since 1415. As soon as these migrants manage to set foot on the soil of either enclave, they are legally in Spain, and cannot be deported under current rules, but are taken to the Spanish mainland to have their requests for asylum assessed.

These migrants, hoping to be recipients of all the benefits that European welfare states offer, stop at nothing in their attempt to enter these enclaves. Mobs of hundreds attack the Spanish guards protecting the security fences, throwing plastic receptacles at them filled with feces, blood, battery acid, and quicklime. Some have had homemade flame throwers. Many guards have been wounded in these attacks, some seriously. The Spanish government this summer declared its intention both to reduce the height of the fence — now six meters — and to remove the barbed wire on top, lest too many migrants be wounded in attempting to climb over it. This ludicrous policy seems, fortunately, not to have been carried out.

During these last few months, the migrants allowed in have been behaving just as they did in trying to enter Spain. They are almost all young men, and extremely violent. Their attacks on the guards at Ceuta have become an embarrassment for Prime Minister Sanchez. And suddenly, just a few months after the Spanish government was expected to open its doors even wider under its new socialist government, and appeared at first to be doing so, it has put that policy in reverse.

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After one of the attacks at Ceuta in late August, the Spanish government ordered the mass expulsion of 166 sub-Saharan Africans who had forced their way through the barbed wire fences and attacked guards.

Humanitarianism is not permissiveness,” said Spanish interior minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska before a parliamentary hearing on Wednesday[August 22].”Orderly, secure and legal immigration is possible, but not violent migration that threatens our country and its security forces.”

Confronted with these outrages, the Socialist government has changed course. Not only has the extreme violence and sense of entitlement of these so-called asylum seekers — “asylum from what?,” one may well wonder — shaken the Spanish, but they now realize that many of the migrants come with plans to continue on, once they have been granted asylum by Spain, to northern Europe where benefits are better (these migrants are in no hurry to find work), and this has caused other EU governments to complain about Spain’s relatively open border policies. It is not only Spain that has been harmed by its immigration policies, but all the members of the E.U. French President Emmanuel Macron recently ordered the deportation of large numbers of African migrants who had crossed into his country from Spain.

Within days of the Ceuta border assault on August 22, Spanish police rounded up 166 migrants from a shelter in Ceuta and drove them back across the border to Morocco, invoking a special extradition agreement negotiated between the two governments 25 years ago and which had rarely been implemented before. Throwing feces, blood, acid, and quicklime at the police, while on Moroccan soil, constitutes criminal behavior for which such extradition is fitting.

Naturally, the Spanish hard left, the “United We Can” Party, has accused Sanchez of violating human rights and of breaking his promises of a more compassionate policy toward immigrants. Sanchez, remember, had demonstrated his new policy, beginning in mid-June, by welcoming migrants arriving on ships (including rescue ships and smugglers’ crafts) turned away from Italy, France, and Malta. As for the security fences around Ceuta and Melilla, Sanchez had promised to remove the razor-sharp concertina wire attached to the border fences as requested by various human rights organizations.

But Sanchez, and his government, have been mugged by reality. Instead of removing barbed-wire from the security fences around Ceuta and Melilla, they have strengthened border defenses:

Quoting the International Organization for Migration, conservative opposition leader Pablo Casado said immigration to Spain had tripled since the new government took office in June. He said authorities were taking emergency measures to strengthen border defenses that had been previously rejected by the socialists.

Spain’s daily newspaper El Mundo reported that angry calls from chiefs of the militarized Guardia Civil who threatened to resign if drastic measures were not taken to counter the attack on border units, forced the government’s hand.

Particularly unsettling were two assaults by these would-be migrants. The first took place on July 24, when more than 600 migrants stormed the guards at Ceuta, then cut their way through, or climbed their way over, the security fence, into “Spain.’

A retired Civil Guard general who acts as a top advisor to the interior ministry, speaking anonymously, told VOA the gendarme forces were already strained in southern Spain.

We have to start removing some these people and prevent too many more from getting here,” he said.

While last month’s forced entry at Ceuta was the most dramatic and violent experienced until now, it was not the first and could initiate a trend of even more serious future attacks, according to security analysts.

And, in fact, there have been other attempts to force their entry into Ceuta since, involving large numbers of attackers, as on August 22, where more than a hundred Africans, employing the same tactics (throwing acid, feces, blood, quicklime at the Spanish guards to hold them back), and using cutting tools, managed to make holes in the security fence:

Grande-Marlaska said the group that broke through the fence displayed a high degree of organization. The interior minister said they used cutting tools, improvised weapons and coordinated tactics by which shock units held back police to open holes through which hundreds of others slipped through the fence.

Police arrested 10 more immigrants on August 23 and authorities accused of them of leading the attacks against the Guardia Civil. Officials said the group’s ringleader is of Togolese origin and had experience in his country’s armed forces, including some paramilitary training.

The Spanish authorities back in May originally held out the promise of more lenient treatment for those attempting to enter Spain. They took in 630 migrants on the rescue ship Aquarius in mid-June, and continued to let vessels arrive — whether those of the smugglers or those of the rescue ships. 26,000 migrants from Africa have arrived in Spain by sea so far this year.

For some reason, this increase has appeared to have surprised the Spanish authorities. But what did they expect, having semaphored their intentions? Since May, whether they arrived by land or by sea, the numbers of those arriving have tripled over the same period last year. The violent behavior of these migrants in storming Ceuta, and the sickening men they have employed in attacking the Civil Guards, has enraged (and nauseated) both the Spanish authorities and the Spanish people. The videos of these “asylum seekers” screaming in glee as they finally set foot in Spain has also been off-putting. Instead of the quiet dignity of sober asylum seekers, fleeing persecution, these economic migrants have arrived in Spain purely for the loot, that is, for all the benefits that the state, they think, will provide them, and what’s more, they can now move more easily from Spain to richer states in the E.U., such as Germany and Sweden, where the benefits are greater still.

That’s why the Spanish, having had their very short-lived and deeply disturbing encounter with large numbers of African (and North African) migrants, are now swiftly reversing course. Expect them to refortify, rather than weaken, the borders around Ceuta and Melilla, and to continue to extradite to Morocco, as permitted by a little-used treaty, any of those migrants who have committed violent acts while attempting to breach the Spanish security fences.

Spain is not the first European country to be mugged by the effects of the mass immigration by non-Western peoples, including Muslims. But it’s an example that especially heartens, because if even the Socialists show themselves willing to shut the very doors that they made a point, so recently, of flinging open to such immigrants, there is hope that Europe itself can come to its senses.

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Suresh
Suresh
5 years ago

LOL ! Do they really get it ?

And the Pope shills for bringing in more of these into christian lands http://tinyurl.com/popeofwolves

while he lives behind secure 40 ft walls and 24 hour security !

IzlamDownpressesHumanity
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
5 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

What a vile, muslum collaborating worm. Talk about false prophets…

OverIt
OverIt
5 years ago
Reply to  Suresh

No, clearly they don’t get it. Anybody who thinks that men who behave in an extremely violent way to get into a country are suddenly going to turn into decent model citizens should have an IQ test and be instantly removed from any position of power.

chris VN
chris VN
5 years ago
Reply to  Suresh

I wonder how many muslim employees he has working inside the walls ???

JC Bond
JC Bond
5 years ago

Yeah those Spanish are just European Mexicans. See this story: Suspect in Iowa State golf star’s slaying had urge to ‘rape and kill’. This SPANISH (really Mexican?) woman was on a golf course (doing WHAT??) and a poor homeless American boy becomes the victim of OUR justice because he raped and killed her… this never would have happned if SHE wan’t in the country as unwelcome guest… this is what happens when you let Spanish people into the country! We CAN’T win with this spanish style socialism allowing Spanish immigrants onto our country!!!!! MAGA!!!

MAS
MAS
5 years ago
Reply to  JC Bond

The Mexicans of Spanish bloodline don’t invade us, they’ve got it pretty good in Mexico. No, what we’re seeing here is the Indians they want to be rid of…

OverIt
OverIt
5 years ago
Reply to  JC Bond

You’re blaming the victim for being raped and killed???? You think a man, American or not, homeless or not, is ok to rape somebody who may or may not be legally in the country?

You are seriously disturbed.

Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
5 years ago
Reply to  JC Bond

Probably seeking vengeance for the spic that raped and murdered the U of I student.

GandalfsTrouserpress
GandalfsTrouserpress
5 years ago
Reply to  JC Bond

Troll faking as a MAGA supporter alert! ////

Michelle
Michelle
5 years ago

The muslims are all flooding to Catalonia just waiting for its independence so that they can eventually create the first muslim western state there. if you bother to ask them they see it a a muslim country occupied by the west. No big secret. So Catalonian independence is NOT a good thing whatever they tell you.

GandalfsTrouserpress
GandalfsTrouserpress
5 years ago
Reply to  Michelle

Barcelona bullring touted as Europe’s largest mosque:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/25/barcelona-bullfighting-ring-mosque-plan

evangeline golding
evangeline golding
5 years ago

Makes sense. From one centre of total evil and inhumane barbarity to another…

dad1927
dad1927
5 years ago
Reply to  Michelle

vaccinate them all

MAS
MAS
5 years ago

Reality, it’s for those who don’t use drugs or Marxism…

bugandco
bugandco
5 years ago

Send the hell devils back to hell.

Dennis
Dennis
5 years ago

The ‘reality’ that this article speaks to is the fact that these emigres do not understand, nor are they able to assimilate their cultural background with those of the European cultures, and that should have long ago been recognized. My comment is not intended to be bigoted or racial. My comment is pragmatic. It should not surprise anyone that people living in foreign lands have been raised within whatever their culture and belief system expects of them. That logical difference between culture, which includes morality, mores, and differences in conduct and expectations, often precludes other cultures from being able to accept assimilation into another foreign culture. That factual difference makes their immigration unhealthy to the indigenous cultures they are entering. That is being seen as an obvious factor, and I do not believe there is a remedy available as the left believes. I sympathize with the Europeans, and hope that they will save themselves from the horrible consequences of a stupid policy of open borders.

Michael Garfinkel
Michael Garfinkel
5 years ago
Reply to  Dennis

I’m afraid there is little that is “pragmatic” in your remarks.

The goal, or perhaps the hope of the migrants, is not, as you suggest, to be “able to assimilate their cultural background with those of the European cultures.”

On the contrary, the goal of the migrants is quite obvious – it is the rape and plunder of Europe.

You mention that there is a “remedy available as the left believes,” but you fail to mention the nature of that remedy.

Let me assist – there is only one remedy, which is the wholesale deportation of violent foreign mobs.

You do acknowledge, finally, the “stupid policy of open borders” yet you somehow “sympathize” with the Europeans.

That sympathy, however, is misplaced: it took several millenia of hardship, genius, and struggle to build Europe, yet this generation is dismantling that prodigious achievement for reasons that are entirely unintelligible.

This socialist government in Spain in particular, represents an attitude best demonstrated by Laszlo Toth, the man who vandalized Michelangelo’s Pietà.

They too have wielded a hammer, in this case to Spain herself – but unlike Toth, they are not criminally insane.

They are therefore deserving, not of sympathy, but of the most severe condemnation.

Tamara Hussey-Mecklenburg
Tamara Hussey-Mecklenburg
5 years ago

Standing shoot to kill orders should have been mandated. These are savages. Their brains resemble that of wild animals more than human beings.

OverIt
OverIt
5 years ago

I believe that will ultimately come to Europe. It could so easily have been avoided with a wise leader at the helm.

Tamara Hussey-Mecklenburg
Tamara Hussey-Mecklenburg
5 years ago
Reply to  OverIt

Exactly. There isn’t a migrant crisis, there’s a leadership crisis.

Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
5 years ago

It’s a moslem crisis.

evangeline golding
evangeline golding
5 years ago

Yeah, they’re still breathing.

Mamat Mamat
Mamat Mamat
5 years ago

They are not even migrants, they are criminal invaders that come to Europe to loot, rape, and pillage. European countries need fearless patriotic leaders that would do anything to eliminate these vermin along with the leftist traitors who protected them.

Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
5 years ago

What an insult to wild animals. I like wild animals. I hunt wild animals and contribute decent sized sums of money for their habitat. Wild animals are part of nature, just as man is a part of nature. A moslem is vermin .. the vilest of ALL creatures.

Tamara Hussey-Mecklenburg
Tamara Hussey-Mecklenburg
5 years ago

My comment was a professional statement, not a personal observation nor metaphor. Life experiences, not genetics creates extremely paranoid schizophrenic brain. The brains of irrational and extremely violent people more closely resembles wild animals than human beings. By that point, few, if any, are restorable. The brain is “plastic” and changes according to life experiences. Islam, because of it’s completely backward perspectives to human instinct-based decision making processes, creates these extremely schizophrenic brains the more devoutly it is lived. All those subject to and abused by them are similarly affected. Islamic immigration is dangerous on every level because mental illnesses like they have are socially acquired, simply by hearing their totally backward beliefs and simultaneously being abused by Muslims by witnessing their abusuve behaviours including their clothing issues, groominggchoices, etc, or abused by the directly, as they insult you, your values, your religion, your country and culture, your kindness, your psychological equality, and use rage and physical abuse to control you in the workforce or public or even personal life. You are being psychologically altered against your will. They are bad people because their wiring is universally backward. They literally have brains more physically similar to animals than human beings as a result, especially these total savages. My academic research has proven evolution didn’t happen. One of many evidences against it is that savage behaviour is socially acquired, not genetic, nor is it evidence that we have evolved in any way .there are too many scientific evidences against evolution. It simply must be discarded by scientific circles.

Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
5 years ago

Wild animals are FAR above moslems. A moslem’s “wiring” isn’t simply “backward”. They (moslems) have the Stanford-Binet score of a walnut. No matter how that brain is wired … there is no relief or reversal. Simply put, moslems are the vilest of ALL creatures, FAR lower than rats and cockroaches.

Tamara Hussey-Mecklenburg
Tamara Hussey-Mecklenburg
5 years ago

You obviously have similar issues. Animals are no different. All the dogs killing people randomly should be your first clue–or are you like Muslim sympathizers who think it’s got to be the baby’s fault or perhaps the owners abused the dog? No. They’re only not dangerous because of backbreeding making them inbred and therefore retarded. When a breeder fails to back breed sufficiently, the wild dog rears it’s head and slaughters people. Animals are not human beings. They are not universally safe, either. Get a grip.

Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
5 years ago

You seem to have a very severe problem with reading comprehension. I am a firm believer, as previously stated, that the vilest of ALL creatures (moslems) are simply the way that they are. It’s the way they were born. NO moslem is “safe”. Get a grip.

Tamara Hussey-Mecklenburg
Tamara Hussey-Mecklenburg
5 years ago

And you would be wrong…no one is “born that way” (evil). Quite the opposite. Oh brother.

Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
5 years ago

Yes, the opposite is the truth. They (moslems) ARE born evil. Oh brother.

Tamara Hussey-Mecklenburg
Tamara Hussey-Mecklenburg
5 years ago

That’s an incredibly deluded and uneducated thing to say. It’s also the most unchristian. We are all God’s children and as such, created in his image, have his conscience. Even Muslims. Even Africans who are savages have the same consciences we do. They get trained out of them through cultural behaviours which are basically extreme forms of abuse.

NO ONE is born bad. There are, in fact, also no genes for mental illness, criminality, being LGBT, etc. Genes have no part in inhuman or abnormal behaviour. To say we are born that way is both a massively deluded perspective, total ignorance, and possibly also a learning disabled filter which distorts processing of events and circumstances we’re struggling with.

You need to turn off anger. Anger, fear, and stress hormones physically alter the brain over time to create the Paranoid Schizophrenic brain, which actually physically resembles an animal brain more closely than a human’s. These hormones cause the blood vessels in the frontal lobe where emotions, memory, language, reasoning, decision making, ie intelligence and executive brain functions reside, to shrink, reducing blood flow, basically reducing the size and functionality of that area. It simultaneously increases blood flow to the rear, motor skill and sexuality areas of the brain, making a person physically and sexually dangerous. This is how we get all the bad people and ideas including violence, criminality, feminism, islam, and being LGBT.

NOT born that way.

Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
5 years ago

That was. more than likely, the most deluded and uneducated “comment” to which I have ever had the great displeasure of having read.
A moslem IS born that way. That, is a simple FACT (special emphasis added).

Tamara Hussey-Mecklenburg
Tamara Hussey-Mecklenburg
5 years ago

You are definitely in need of a lot more education…

Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
5 years ago

Your education definitely needs to be expanded beyond primary school. When you have reached junior high, come back and we will continue the conversation.

santashandler
santashandler
5 years ago

Well, there might be some chance of ‘relief or reversal’ with a few hundred sessions of high dose electro-shock therapy, combined with constant stimulating images of goat sex

evangeline golding
evangeline golding
5 years ago

I agree with the shoot to kill mandate.
But please, don’t insult animals, wild or otherwise! Animals would NEVER behave like this!

Tamara Hussey-Mecklenburg
Tamara Hussey-Mecklenburg
5 years ago

It was a scientific fact, not a metaphor nor personal observation. The brain changes according to life experiences. The more irrational and savage the individual, the more similar their brain structure will be toward a wild animal. And no, wild animals are no different. You simply have not worked them long enough. Like human savages, they can appear to be very easy to be around, friendly and even affectionate. Then they strike irrationally without warning. Heck, even domesticated animals will do this. Without provocation. Dolphins are well known for this despite their popular reputation to the contrary. The public really is dramatically uninformed.

felix1999
felix1999
5 years ago

Keep the savages in the EU. We don’t want them. It is a good question. Asylum from what? Other people like themselves? Violent free loaders and rapists?
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AlgorithmicAnalyst
AlgorithmicAnalyst
5 years ago

Reconquista 🙂

santashandler
santashandler
5 years ago

What if Spain electrified, with about 240,000 volts, every border fence in the country and posted signs every quarter mile, in Spanish, notifying every one who comes in contact, they would get electrocuted if they touched it. No deportations necessary and a surplus of materials to be used for dog food.

dad1927
dad1927
5 years ago
Reply to  santashandler

as Stalin once said “make sure nothing happens to them before Friday”

Number 6
Number 6
5 years ago

Ay caramba, there goes the neighborhood.

Maranatha
Maranatha
5 years ago

According to the Spanish newspaper Alerta Digital,…those 166 deportees never reached Morocco.
Sanchez is 200% untrustable.
..

R. Arandas
R. Arandas
5 years ago

Por favor, NO! Juntos, no caeremos en la oscuridad!

hangar2247
hangar2247
5 years ago

Reality finally hit the Socialists square in the face.

Benton Marder
Benton Marder
5 years ago

Why are not the invaders shot at the borders? Does not a country have the right of defence against an invasion? A few burst from twin fifties would ‘encourage the invaders, concentrating their minds wonderfully’. Spain’s problem, the same problem afflicting western European countries, is their spinelees, stupid, incompetent, treacherous governing classes and the media. The peoples have got to uproot their elites and hang them out to dry.

2 parrots and a dog
2 parrots and a dog
5 years ago

I remember when the point of allowing this invasion of savages was so that they would work ensuring that the welfare state would continue for older Germans because younger Germans weren’t having enough children. At what point will the EU realize that they are destroying their culture and the future of their nations? Their children are being raped and the EU leaders don’t care. The elderly are supporting a foreign army bent on destroying them and the EU leaders don’t care. Insanity!

DaveM12
DaveM12
5 years ago

A lot of this African migration can be put at the feet of people like Bono, Doctors without Borders and every do-good group that for decades have provided death control in Africa. They ensure babies that would have died now live, dig wells, provide food and shelter, medical care, just everything except birth control and viola an exploding population growth with no jobs and a subsistence culture that can not feed itself hence as Mark Steyn wrote in his books it will be likened to locusts as this huge population will migrate to Europe. The two jewels built by Europeans in Africa, Rhodesia and South Africa, are gone now.

Edward Cline
Edward Cline
5 years ago

The Spanish police should be permitted to hire snipers to pick the “immigrants” off the fences and let the Moroccans take care of the bodies that fall on their side. Such a policy would at least diminish the numbers of invaders. Should we care about the “immigrants.”? No. Are rape and crime statistics being reported to the Spanish? Are they being kept in the dark as Germans are about the crime rates attributed to the Africans and Muslims? Probably.

Laddyboy
Laddyboy
5 years ago

After the Human trafficed souls are removed from the boats, ships – – SINK the transportation equipment. Make more ARTIFICIAL REEFS that are needed.

dad1927
dad1927
5 years ago

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