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Migrants storm Spanish border - what's happening in Ceuta and why · THE DAILY BRIEF

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  Speaker 1: We've never seen seeds like this before.
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  Speaker 2: Tens of thousands of migrants have now made it from
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  Speaker 2: Morocco into this Spanish sliver of North Africa.
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  Speaker 3: Madrid is deploying military units to its border with Morocco
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  Speaker 3: in an effort to restore order.
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  Speaker 4: Espane your Allow.
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  Speaker 5: Spain's far right Vox Party called this an invasion. The
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  Speaker 5: images are stark, so are the numbers. About sixty thousand
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  Speaker 5: migrants have crossed into Spain's North African territory of Suta
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  Speaker 5: from Morocco in the last twenty four hours. That's according
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  Speaker 5: to Suta's president. At least forty three others died during
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  Speaker 5: the crossing. Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez described the situation
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  Speaker 5: as an attack. He said all illegal migrants would be
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  Speaker 5: returned to Morocco as soon as possible. Officials say that
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  Speaker 5: more than thirty five thousand have returned to Morocco voluntarily
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  Speaker 5: so far. Over the next ten minutes or so, we
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  Speaker 5: will look at why it has happened and reaction to it.
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  Speaker 5: But first, one of the big questions a lot of
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  Speaker 5: people are asking is where exactly is Seuta. Here's a
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  Speaker 5: quick explanation.
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  Speaker 6: Suita is a Spanish North African territory.
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  Speaker 7: It is on Morocco's northern coast and is separated from
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  Speaker 7: mainland Spain by the Strait of Gibraltar, and has long
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  Speaker 7: been a focal point for migrants attempting to reach.
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  Speaker 6: Europe, along with its larger sister city, Maleia, situated some
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  Speaker 6: four hundred kilometers further south along the coast. Together, they
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  Speaker 6: formed the European Union's only land borders with Africa.
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  Speaker 7: They have long been a flashpoint in diplomatic relations between
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  Speaker 7: Morocco and Spain.
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  Speaker 6: Morocco does not officially recognize them as Spanish territory.
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  Speaker 7: They trace their Spanish past back to the fifteenth century.
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  Speaker 6: Historically, both port cities developed as military and trade centers,
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  Speaker 6: linking Africa to Europe.
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  Speaker 7: Since nineteen ninety five, they have enjoyed a limited degree
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  Speaker 7: of self government.
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  Speaker 5: So what exactly has happened in Suta over the past
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  Speaker 5: twenty four hour Southern Europe correspondent Sarah Rainsford explains.
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  Speaker 2: These images are of thousands of migrants suddenly rushing towards
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  Speaker 2: Morocco's border with Sauta, a tiny sliver of land that
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  Speaker 2: belongs to Spain. They swam across in such huge numbers
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  Speaker 2: that the border effectively collapsed. There was chaos. The swim
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  Speaker 2: isn't long, but some people clearly struggled, and several dozen
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  Speaker 2: have drowned. Those who did make it.
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  Speaker 1: To Sure though, were euphoric.
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  Speaker 2: No, so why Sayuta? Well, it's a spot where Europe
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  Speaker 2: and Africa meet directly, a stepping stone, something on the
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  Speaker 2: way to a better life. It's just a few square
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  Speaker 2: miles in size and with around eighty thousand inhabitants, so
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  Speaker 2: fifty thousand more arriving in just one day was quite something.
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  Speaker 2: Spain has now sent troops and police to help keep
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  Speaker 2: the peace and to reinforce the border, but there are
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  Speaker 2: also questions about what Morocco did or didn't do to
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  Speaker 2: stop people crossing. Right now, it is not with Spain
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  Speaker 2: because of Spain's relations with Algeria, not a friend of Morocco.
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  Speaker 2: Spain's government is playing that down because it needs help
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  Speaker 2: from Morocco now to be able to send people back there.
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  Speaker 2: Many have already gone, but many thousands more are still
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  Speaker 2: in Suta and unsure of what happens next.
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  Speaker 5: CBS News reporter Aidan Stretch is in Suta and sent
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  Speaker 5: us this update.
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  Speaker 4: Over the last forty eight hours, tens of thousands of
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  Speaker 4: people have poured across the border from Morocco into this
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  Speaker 4: tiny Spanish enquave of Ceuta. You can see many of
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  Speaker 4: them are now lined up here in the water, ready
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  Speaker 4: to come home. Many of them told us that they
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  Speaker 4: came here and search juts of money, of food. One
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  Speaker 4: of them told us that he wanted to play European soccer.
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  Speaker 4: They haven't found that here yet. Some people that we
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  Speaker 4: spoke to said that they haven't been able to find
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  Speaker 4: food for twenty four hours and are now lining up
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  Speaker 4: to return home voluntarily.
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  Speaker 5: So that's what's happening on the ground. But why are
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  Speaker 5: the migrants opting to go via this that's a question
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  Speaker 5: for our global population correspondent Stephanie Hegety.
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  Speaker 3: Well, for one, it's a relatively easy crossing compared to
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  Speaker 3: other ways to get from Africa to Europe. It's the
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  Speaker 3: only land border connecting the EU and Africa. It's a
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  Speaker 3: short swim from one place to the other or a
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  Speaker 3: climb over several fences, and that border is heavily secured.
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  Speaker 3: But as we've seen, it's relatively easy when there's this
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  Speaker 3: number of people to overwhelm those border forces.
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  Speaker 5: Well, this is the biggest mass crossing for five years
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  Speaker 5: in Siuta, so why is it happening now? Here's Stephanie again.
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  Speaker 3: So earlier this month, Spain's Supreme Court ruled that migrants
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  Speaker 3: who reached the Spanish enclaves of Theta and Mayia from
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  Speaker 3: Morocco by sea cannot be returned to Morocco without their
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  Speaker 3: being given the chance to claim asylum.
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  Speaker 7: So that it's.
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  Speaker 3: Possible that that is what inspired all of these people
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  Speaker 3: to cross now, but it's not clear exactly how such
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  Speaker 3: a large number of people, tens of thousands of people,
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  Speaker 3: coordinated in and organized to make this move in one go.
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  Speaker 3: Most of these people do seemed to be North African.
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  Speaker 3: They're not black, not Sub Saharan African for the most part,
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  Speaker 3: and from what the Spanish authorities are telling us, they
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  Speaker 3: seem to be Moroccan.
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  Speaker 5: What's been the reaction from Spain to the influx of
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  Speaker 5: migrants from Morocco. The Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez condemned it
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  Speaker 5: as an attack and violation of Spanish sovereignty. Take listen
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  Speaker 5: to what he said.
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  Speaker 8: Is a Spanish city and the scenes we saw yesterday.
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  Speaker 8: I condemned in the most energetic way. I reject them.
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  Speaker 8: I condemned them. I condemn them as deplorable. They were
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  Speaker 8: a violation of the territorial integrity of a Spanish city,
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  Speaker 8: the Spanish city or Sauta.
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  Speaker 5: Several European leaders have expressed concerns, some promising to titan
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  Speaker 5: border controls. The European Commissioned President or So Lafonda Lions
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  Speaker 5: said no one should be allowed into the EU without
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  Speaker 5: following the rules. In a moment, we'll hear from Emmanuel
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  Speaker 5: Lopez Fibor, an MP for the Italian Prime Minister Georgie
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  Speaker 5: Malani's Brothers of Italy party. The first here is the
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  Speaker 5: UK government Minister John Heally.
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  Speaker 1: We've never seen seasons like this before. What it shows
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  Speaker 1: is illegal immigration is an international problem and we're working
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  Speaker 1: really closely with countries across the world to try and
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  Speaker 1: deal with these terrible people traffickers.
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  Speaker 9: Is a mutual interest over the European countries to control
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  Speaker 9: who is entering in the European Union. So that is
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  Speaker 9: what we are asking to Spain. It is just to
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  Speaker 9: say that there is something possible inside the European You
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  Speaker 9: want to have a temporary suspension of the shame and agreement.
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  Speaker 9: That is what we are eventually thinking about the situation
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  Speaker 9: with Spain because there are thousands of thousands of the
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  Speaker 9: immigrants arriving in the Spanish city. It is not only
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  Speaker 9: Italy that is eventually thinking about that. There is also
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  Speaker 9: the Finnish Prime Minister that already stated that Georgia Menoni
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  Speaker 9: was doing correctly, and the France already announced there is
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  Speaker 9: severe control on the border of this Spain.
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  Speaker 5: So that's a flavor of the reaction from Europe. But
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  Speaker 5: what about from Morocco. BBC Monitorings Gregory Holyoake has been
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  Speaker 5: looking at what has been coming out from the country.
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  Speaker 10: So the official response in Morocco itself seems to be
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  Speaker 10: one of almost deafening silence. We in monitoring have not
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  Speaker 10: observed any comments by the king or officials within Rabat
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  Speaker 10: or the Kingdom. There has been some reporting in pro
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  Speaker 10: government media, but it has generally suggested a positive picture
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  Speaker 10: of cooperation between Rabat and Madrid. In opposition media, there's
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  Speaker 10: been more questions that have been coming out about why
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  Speaker 10: people are trying to leave in the first place.
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  Speaker 5: Seeta and Melia have long been a focal point for
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  Speaker 5: migrants attempting to reach Europe. Gregory has more on previous
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  Speaker 5: incidents at the border.
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  Speaker 10: Now, this certainly isn't the first time this has happened.
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  Speaker 10: Just a few years ago in twenty twenty one, we
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  Speaker 10: saw a similar influx of people coming in up to
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  Speaker 10: eight thousand is what was being reported at the time,
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  Speaker 10: coming into these two enclaves at the top end of Morocco.
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  Speaker 10: We saw reporting at the time and even now being
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  Speaker 10: referred back to that that was also a sort of
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  Speaker 10: pressure technique that Morocco might be using over Spain's position
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  Speaker 10: towards Western Sahara as well. There has been a very
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  Speaker 10: long dispute between Spain and Morocco over sovereignty of these
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  Speaker 10: two areas as well. There has been a lot of
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  Speaker 10: quotations and citations in Moroccan media saying that they are
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  Speaker 10: occupied territories and that this is showing that they are
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  Speaker 10: not sustainable as Spanish territory going forward. So we will
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  Speaker 10: have to see what happens with the diplomatic fallout.
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  Speaker 5: And finally, let's look at the migrant numbers across Europe.
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  Speaker 5: How many people make in each year. Back to our
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  Speaker 5: global population correspondent Stephanie Hagerty, who has been looking at
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  Speaker 5: the numbers.
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  Speaker 3: So the UN's International Organization for Migration as estimates for
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  Speaker 3: how many my migrants cross into Europe and these irregular
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  Speaker 3: routes every year, and last year their estimate was one
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  Speaker 3: hundred and fifty thousand people for the whole year for
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  Speaker 3: all of the different routes into Europe. But that's actually
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  Speaker 3: a decrease from the year before of three hundred thousand people.
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  Speaker 3: Most of those people are coming through different routes through
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  Speaker 3: the Central Mediterranean, from Tunisia or Libya to Italy, and
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  Speaker 3: then a huge number also from a Turkey into Cyprus,
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  Speaker 3: Bulgaria or Greece. When it comes to this route that
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  Speaker 3: we're talking about, it was much smaller numbers. So for
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  Speaker 3: the whole of Spain, there were last year only about
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  Speaker 3: thirty six thousand migrants entering Spain through most of them
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  Speaker 3: on the much more dangerous route from West Africa to
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  Speaker 3: the Canaries. So you can see from those numbers just
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  Speaker 3: what a huge contrast that is to have fifty to
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  Speaker 3: sixty thousand people crossing into Spain in one day.
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  Speaker 5: And that is all you need to know about the
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  Speaker 5: migrants in Suta