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Feijóo pushes mass returns and military deployment as Ceuta crisis deepens

Feijóo pushes mass returns and military deployment as Ceuta crisis deepens

Feijóo has called for the immediate return to Morocco of the estimated 50,000 people who crossed into Ceuta, while acknowledging that diplomatic efforts with…

People's Party leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo, responding to Prime Minister Sánchez's public statement, has called for the immediate forced return of the estimated 50,000 people who crossed into Ceuta from Morocco, stating "there is no other way out than the orderly return to Morocco," according to a letter he published on social media. 🔹 What happened: Feijóo's letter demands the government activate a return operation "today," including food and water supply at the border. He calls for Ceuta to be declared a national security zone, for the Armed Forces to be deployed with specific instructions, and for Frontex rapid units — already offered by the European Commission — to be accepted. On legislation, he proposes a fast-tracked single-reading reform of the Immigration Law the PP registered on July 16, which would allow border rejection. He dismissed Prime Minister Sánchez's announced sea buoy deployment as "improvisation" and demanded Sánchez appear before parliament urgently to answer for the situation. 🔹 Why it matters: For the tens of thousands of people in Ceuta, Feijóo's plan has one stated outcome: return to Morocco. EPM previously documented that nine people died making the crossing and that reception centers were overwhelmed by 1,500 arrivals in just seven days. The proposed immigration reform would modify existing legal protections currently embedded in the Immigration Law. Feijóo's own letter acknowledges that Morocco has not responded to recent diplomatic overtures, which raises a direct operational question: if Morocco does not readmit, a return device with food and water at the border becomes a prolonged waiting situation with no resolution. 📌 EPM Take: The sharpest contradiction in Feijóo's letter is one he does not address: he demands Morocco be treated as the top diplomatic priority, while simultaneously acknowledging that the diplomatic moves of recent hours produced nothing. A mass return of 50,000 people requires active Moroccan cooperation — the same cooperation that, by his own account, is currently absent. The PP registered its Immigration Law reform on July 16. The government did not move it forward. The people who paid the price for that legislative standoff are now at the border. The question that cuts through the political noise: what specific commitment from Morocco would make the return device Feijóo is calling for actually operational, and who is responsible for securing it?
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