https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Spain in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Days after up to 10,000 people surged across the Moroccan border into Spain's Ceuta enclave, many hundreds are still here, mostly minors, posing a quandary for the tiny territory. https://www.thelocal.es/20210522/focus-spains-ceuta-enclave-in-a-quandary-about-its-lost-boy-migrants Sat, 22 May 2021 19:13:26 +0200 focus-spains-ceuta-enclave-in-a-quandary-about-its-lost-boy-migrants Seventy migrants made it over a Moroccan border fence to reach the Spanish enclave of Melilla on Friday, authorities said, after record numbers reached Spain's other North African territory earlier this week https://www.thelocal.es/20210522/seventy-migrants-cross-border-fence-into-spains-melilla-enclave Sat, 22 May 2021 13:01:57 +0200 seventy-migrants-cross-border-fence-into-spains-melilla-enclave More than 50 migrants forced their way into Spain's North African enclave of Melilla on Monday in a mass crossing of the heavily-protected border in which a police officer was lightly injured, officials said. https://www.thelocal.es/20200406/dozens-scale-border-fence-into-spains-north-african-enclave-melilla Mon, 06 Apr 2020 18:53:04 +0200 dozens-scale-border-fence-into-spains-north-african-enclave-melilla Spain committed no violation when it expelled a group of migrants trying to force their way onto EU territory by scaling fences in a North African enclave, the European Court of Human Rights ruled Thursday. https://www.thelocal.es/20200213/spain-cleared-by-european-court-of-human-rights-over-removal-of-migrants-at-border-fence Thu, 13 Feb 2020 19:05:21 +0100 spain-cleared-by-european-court-of-human-rights-over-removal-of-migrants-at-border-fence Around 50 migrants forced their way into Spain's North African enclave of Melilla from Morocco on Friday by climbing over a towering border fence, Spanish authorities said. https://www.thelocal.es/20190720/dozens-of-migrants-force-entry-into-spains-melilla-enclave Sat, 20 Jul 2019 11:20:31 +0200 dozens-of-migrants-force-entry-into-spains-melilla-enclave Fifty-two African migrants forced their way into Spain's North African enclave of Melilla from Morocco Sunday by climbing over a towering border fence, Spanish authorities said. https://www.thelocal.es/20190512/over-50-migrants-force-entry-into-spains-melilla-enclave Sun, 12 May 2019 17:19:33 +0200 over-50-migrants-force-entry-into-spains-melilla-enclave A Spanish jihadist cell funded itself through tax fraud on chicken, cheese and chocolate sold in Denmark, according to an investigation published Tuesday led by non-profit European newsroom Correctiv. https://www.thelocal.es/20190508/danish-vat-food-fraud-funded-spanish-jihadi-cell-report Wed, 08 May 2019 11:00:16 +0200 danish-vat-food-fraud-funded-spanish-jihadi-cell-report The leader of the Spanish far-right party Vox is following in the footsteps of Donald Trump with demands for a wall at the border to stop the flow of immigrants. https://www.thelocal.es/20190329/vox-wants-to-build-a-wall-to-stop-immigrants-coming-to-spain-and-they-want-morocco-to-pay-for-it Fri, 29 Mar 2019 18:23:03 +0100 vox-wants-to-build-a-wall-to-stop-immigrants-coming-to-spain-and-they-want-morocco-to-pay-for-it Thirteen sub-Saharan African migrants died and another 80 were rescued at sea after they tried to reach Spain in two boats from the North African coast, Spanish authorities said on Monday. https://www.thelocal.es/20181106/drowned-at-sea-13-migrants-died-over-weekend-trying-to-reach-spain Tue, 06 Nov 2018 12:05:54 +0100 drowned-at-sea-13-migrants-died-over-weekend-trying-to-reach-spain Spain sent 55 migrants back to Morocco on Monday a day after they forced their way into the Spanish territory of Melilla during an assault on the border in which two migrants died and 19 were injured. https://www.thelocal.es/20181023/spain-returns-migrants-to-morocco-after-storming-of-melilla-enclave Tue, 23 Oct 2018 11:29:54 +0200 spain-returns-migrants-to-morocco-after-storming-of-melilla-enclave A migrant died Sunday and 19 others were hurt after around 200 people scaled a fence to enter Spain's Melilla enclave from northern Morocco, local Spanish authorities said. https://www.thelocal.es/20181021/one-dead-as-200-migrants-reach-spains-melilla-enclave Sun, 21 Oct 2018 17:54:01 +0200 one-dead-as-200-migrants-reach-spains-melilla-enclave Madrid and Rabat are in talks to repatriate thousands of Moroccan minors who arrived in Spain alone without their parents, a Spanish interior ministry spokesman said Friday. https://www.thelocal.es/20181005/spain-and-morocco-in-talks-to-repatriate-migrant-minors Fri, 05 Oct 2018 17:45:31 +0200 spain-and-morocco-in-talks-to-repatriate-migrant-minors In the Spanish enclave of Melilla in northern Morocco, 19-year-old Issam crouches near the port after hopping over a fence across one of the only land borders bridging Europe and Africa. https://www.thelocal.es/20180921/moroccan-migrants-risk-it-all-to-reach-europe Fri, 21 Sep 2018 14:40:13 +0200 moroccan-migrants-risk-it-all-to-reach-europe They scale barbed-wire topped fences and cross the sea in inflatable boats or jet skis -- more than 36,000 migrants entered Spain this year seeking a better life in Europe. Almost all of them relied on smugglers to make the crossing. https://www.thelocal.es/20180918/smugglers-pave-path-for-migrants-from-africa-to-europe Tue, 18 Sep 2018 11:43:20 +0200 smugglers-pave-path-for-migrants-from-africa-to-europe Fernando Grande-Marlaska, the newly appointed Interior Minister in the government of Socialist prime minister, Pedro Sanchez, has indicated his desire to remove the controversial razor wire designed to deter migrants from crossing illegally from Morocco into Spain. https://www.thelocal.es/20180614/spains-new-interior-minister-just-promised-to-remove-razor-wire-at-melilla-and-ceuta-borders Thu, 14 Jun 2018 15:09:29 +0200 spains-new-interior-minister-just-promised-to-remove-razor-wire-at-melilla-and-ceuta-borders At 14 years old, Ismail said he is "ready for anything" as he tries to board a boat for Europe and leave his Moroccan homeland behind. https://www.thelocal.es/20180515/young-migrants-put-european-hopes-in-spanish-enclave Tue, 15 May 2018 10:58:17 +0200 young-migrants-put-european-hopes-in-spanish-enclave It's a form of hard labour that has provoked an outcry -- Moroccan women bent double, overburdened by goods approaching or exceeding their own bodyweight. https://www.thelocal.es/20180418/trolleys-bring-relief-for-moroccan-mule-women-at-spanish-border Wed, 18 Apr 2018 11:35:01 +0200 trolleys-bring-relief-for-moroccan-mule-women-at-spanish-border Moroccan rescue services have recovered the bodies of around 20 migrants in the Mediterranean, a spokeswoman for the Spanish enclave of Melilla said on Sunday. https://www.thelocal.es/20180204/spanish-ship-spots-20-dead-migrants-in-waters-off-morocco Sun, 04 Feb 2018 15:01:09 +0100 spanish-ship-spots-20-dead-migrants-in-waters-off-morocco One man died and several other people were injured during a stampede Monday on the border between Morocco and the Spanish overseas territory of Melilla, authorities and a rights group said. https://www.thelocal.es/20180122/several-injured-in-stampede-at-morocco-spain-border Mon, 22 Jan 2018 16:54:24 +0100 several-injured-in-stampede-at-morocco-spain-border Border police discovered four migrants hidden within one car after it sped through the border crossing into Spain from Morocco. https://www.thelocal.es/20180115/four-migrants-discovered-hidden-inside-boot-bonnet-and-dashboard-at-melilla-border Mon, 15 Jan 2018 11:07:22 +0100 four-migrants-discovered-hidden-inside-boot-bonnet-and-dashboard-at-melilla-border