Spain sends on 13 August to Ceuta about 20 additional abroad police officers and 45 prevention officers. According to Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaski, about 5,000 migrants stay in the city after a massive influx of 30 July. Local safety and real border control are at stake.
Madrid sends people to procedures
Fernando Grande-Marlaska announced on Thursday 13 August a reinforcement of the services in Ceuta. As he stated El País, about 20 officers specialising in abroad affairs are expected to enter the citywho support the identification, documentation and preparation of decisions for persons without a right of residence. There are besides 45 prevention officers to increase police presence on the streets after complaints from residents.
It's not a method staff correction. This admits that the mass influx of late July exceeded the usual capacity of the local administration. Bankier.pl, citing the agency EFE, stated that after entering the city from Morocco there are inactive about 5,000 people. In a tiny enclave, specified numbers immediately become a substance of public order, housing, food, services and courts.
Ceuta continues to bear the cost of the crisis
According to Spanish data, tens of thousands of people have been through Ceuta since July 30. Madrid previously spoke of 72,000 people and about 70,000 return to Morocco, and any government sources began to rise the first number to around 80,000. Associated Press described that The Ceuta border crisis cost more than 80 migrants on both sides of the border. It shows how devastating chaos can be erstwhile the state loses its rhythm of reaction.
The Spanish authorities say that persons without a right of residence are to be returned as shortly as possible, but in peculiarly delicate cases. In parallel, around 500 asylum cases were completed, most of which were to be refused. El País besides stated that 1,898 minors stay in custody. That's the hardest part of the case, due to the fact that border safety has to go with the law and kid protection. The state must be hard, but cannot be reckless.
Sea border and legal border
Ceuta and Melilla are for Spain what the east border for Poland: a place where large words about safety work in practice. Spain has already started strengthening physical security, and DN described that There is simply a floating barrier in Melilla due to the fact that Europe learns boundaries. This kind of action will not solve all migratory pressures, but without them asylum procedures become an invitation to a mass fact.
Legal gaps stay a problem. If thousands of people are convinced that it is adequate to sail around the breakwater or usage the minute of weaker control, the State must respond by law, infrastructure and the presence of services. Therefore, the earlier text of DN that Spain wants to close the legal gap following the migration crisis in Ceuta, is part of the current decisions of Madrid.
Lesson for Poland
For the Polish reader, the most crucial is the stake. Mass migration is not an abstract slogan from tv debates. These are real costs, social tensions, force on schools, wellness care, police, courts and local governments. In Ceuta, even a richer Western state must improvise erstwhile the border is treated as a suggestion.
Poland cannot afford to impose a policy that separates moral slogans from the work of the state. Aid and asylum only make sense if they are controlled by a national state alternatively than forced by a crowd, smugglers, net gossip or external pressure. Ceuta is simply a warning: you first defender the border, then follow procedures. The reversal of this order ends in a crisis.
Source: Bankier.pl, EFE, El País, Associated Press.
Source: Bankier.pl
