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Spanish Right Demands Illegal Mass Deportation of Migrant Children from Ceuta as Experts Reject Health Scare Claims

Spanish Right Demands Illegal Mass Deportation of Migrant Children from Ceuta as Experts Reject Health Scare Claims

PP leader Feijóo visited Ceuta and demanded the return of all migrants, including unaccompanied minors.

The mass arrival of tens of thousands of people from Morocco into the Spanish autonomous city of Ceuta has triggered a political battle in which the immediate targets are unaccompanied migrant children — and the weapons are inflammatory rhetoric and explicit demands to break national and European law. --- THE CONTEXT --- According to eldiario.es, the entries from Morocco produced a humanitarian crisis in Ceuta. PP and Vox have, from the outset, responded with messaging that experts quoted in the same outlet describe as dehumanizing, framing migrants as disease carriers and security threats. --- THE FACTS --- PP leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo visited Ceuta and made statements directly quoted by the source: he spoke of citizens feeling insecurity, exhaustion and fear; of thousands of people wandering without prospects; of ingredients for a serious security problem and possible grave incidents; and listed tuberculosis, scabies and infectious diseases as associated concerns. He stated that everyone must return — adults and minors, without exception. The president of the epidemiologists association pushed back, saying migrants do not bring diseases but contract them in the poor conditions they are living in. The state's senior prosecutor for minors rejected the PP's mass return proposal as legally incoherent. Both PP and Vox oppose receiving the 500 unaccompanied girls in the regions they govern. --- THE POSITIONS --- Feijóo and Vox demand the return of all migrants regardless of age and refuse regional distribution of minors. The senior prosecutor for minors and epidemiology experts reject both the legal and health basis of that position. The central government has no directly attributed response in the source. --- WHAT REMAINS UNKNOWN --- The source does not specify how many unaccompanied minors remain in Ceuta without guardianship, what conditions they face, or whether the government has formally responded to the opposition's deportation demands. --- UNANSWERED QUESTIONS --- • How many unaccompanied minors remain in Ceuta without a resolved guardianship or care arrangement? • What concrete health measures have authorities implemented for the migrant population living in precarious conditions? • Has the central government initiated a formal distribution process for the 500 minors among regional administrations? • What accountability mechanisms exist if a regional government refuses a court-ordered distribution of minors? --- EPM ANALYSIS --- EPM's prior reporting from Ceuta has documented the economic collapse of the city, the absence of coastal surveillance vessels, and the surge in sexual violence against migrant women and girls. This episode adds a disturbing political layer: the main opposition party is not proposing an alternative within the law — it is demanding the law be broken. The decisive variable is whether institutional and judicial guardrails hold under sustained electoral pressure. Children bear the cost either way. 📌 📌 EPM Take: In EPM's view, Feijóo's visit to Ceuta produced not a policy proposal but a demand for deliberate illegality. The senior prosecutor for minors and medical experts have both said the mass return plan is legally void and medically unfounded — yet the opposition is doubling down. When a country's largest opposition party competes with the far right on who can most forcefully demand that the government violate its own laws, the damage is not only to the children involved. It is to the rule of law itself.
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