The Minister of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration, Elma Saiz, explained this Tuesday that the Spanish government has registered 3,019 unaccompanied minors in Ceuta since the mass entry on July 30 and 31. After the Council of Ministers, the spokesperson for Pedro Sánchez's executive also specified that these 3,000 children are "registered and cared for," meaning they are in spaces enabled for minors and, therefore, separated from adults. Of these, 89 have been relocated to the Peninsula in application of the right to family reunification – with direct relatives or extended family –, and 173 more have been relocated to different autonomous communities in accordance with Article 35 of the Immigration Law.

There are phrases that are enough to hear once for them to haunt us, that hurt our soul when we remember them. This has happened to me these days with the so-called Cornell case. "Free pussy in the room upstairs," said the message in a group chat where there were about fifty men. I haven't been able to stop thinking about it. The phrase explains how violence against women has been normalized to the point of brutality.

The 2015 refugee reception crisis represented a turning point for Europe. From then on comes the fear of a new migration crisis at its borders. The perception of threat is such that the overreaction is immediate, regardless of how many there are (with the Aquarius there were 630, 106 when the ship arrived in Valencia) and whether they have actually arrived (let us remember that in Ceuta they were still on the African continent).

When I was eighteen, I didn't know what I wanted to be. It crossed my mind to be a flight attendant and I even weighed the possibility of becoming a criminologist, but the fact that I could reach university thanks to the teachers who had helped me throughout my schooling ended up steering me towards education. And this year, Raquel Elá celebrates her twenty years as a teacher in Catalonia.

A judge in Santa Coloma de Gramenet has opened an investigation following a complaint from social entities in the city against Vox councilman Aitor Navarro for his racist messages on social media and for having disclosed the names of people receiving municipal social aid or subsidies. The judge has summoned Navarro to testify on November 17 and will also take statements from several witnesses a week later, according to a court order reported by Eldiario.es and consulted by ARA.

The hitherto delegate of the Spanish government in Ceuta, Miguel Ángel Pérez Triano, has resigned from his post, denouncing the "constant harassment" he has suffered in the last two months, with personal attacks that have made him say enough is enough. In an appearance without questions, Pérez Triano announced that he is not only leaving the delegation but also putting an end to his political career. "My family does not deserve this," he insisted after citing the personal attacks, among which was a funeral wreath he received at the delegation: "This is also violence." According to Moncloa sources, the delegate conveyed his desire not to continue in the position a few days ago, in a decision that the executive describes as "human and personal" after "many weeks of immense work."

A week ago, a score of migrants reported having suffered beatings and humiliation by military personnel deployed on the streets of Ceuta and the Spanish government announced that it would open an internal investigation into the events. Days later, several videos have come to light showing some of the reported actions and providing graphic proof of them. The images, which Eldiario.es has had access to, show several uniformed soldiers chasing, subduing, and beating migrants at various points in the Spanish enclave.

In the film Passport to Pimlico (1949), the explosion of a World War II bomb uncovers an ancient royal charter proving that a part of this neighborhood in South London legally belongs to the Duchy of Burgundy. The discovery triggers a delirious debate over sovereignty and the identity of its inhabitants, who try to take advantage of the legal loophole to escape postwar restrictions. An administrative absurdity ends up becoming a matter of state.

It is very different when someone who has experienced it firsthand talks to you about immigration than someone who has not. That is why I wanted to read the essay Class boundaries (Anagrama, 2025), by the Albanian political scientist Lea Ypi, professor at the London School of Economics, author of the now famous book Free. She was able to leave her country under very difficult circumstances, when they were supposed to be free and everything was collapsing after the late fall of communism. From the sidelines, it is easy to theorize and pontificate: only let the legal ones in, hire at the source, return them while still hot... Has anyone seen the 2023 movie Me Captain, by Matteo Garrone?It narrates the dramatic journey of Seydou and Moussa, two 16-year-old Senegalese cousins who leave their hometown, Dakar, to try to reach Italy. It is based on true stories. Pope Francis, impressed, received the two actors who starred in it at the Vatican.

The border between Ceuta and Morocco will wake up this Wednesday with more security than usual. Faced with messages on social networks about a new attempt to cross the border taking advantage of the call for legislative elections in the North African country, the Spanish government has decided to reinforce the personnel of the State's security forces and bodies in the autonomous city. The decision became known the same day that Pedro Sánchez acknowledged, from the United States, that "it is clear" that "Morocco's border control mechanism failed" with the massive entry on July 30 and 31. "We have requested answers and actions [from the Moroccan authorities]," said the Spanish president this Tuesday in an interview with CNN in which he raised the tone with Morocco.

A climate of tension, far-right sentiment, and plenty of misinformation. These are the ingredients that explain the disturbances this Sunday at the port of Ceuta, where several protesters ended up stoning the car of Ceuta assembly member Julia Ferreras. The attack, for which a 22-year-old man has been arrested, took place during a protest against the arrival of Negu Gorriak / Derecho a Techo, an NGO from Pamplona that was bringing humanitarian aid to the autonomous city. Neither Ferreras was part of the organization, nor were the companions she sheltered in her car, the activist Rafael Borrego and the human rights lawyer Sofía Cánovas. This, however, did not prevent them from being pelted with eggs and stones, nor did it stop the protesters from breaking the vehicle's windows and mirrors and attempting to force their way inside.

Alberto Núñez Feijóo has returned to Ceuta for the fourth time. This time, however, he has done so accompanied by the president of the European People's Party, Manfred Weber, to reinforce the message of the Spanish conservatives regarding this migration crisis and to illustrate the calls to "Europeanize" this Spanish enclave in North Africa. The message from the two conservative leaders has gone in the same direction as that of the president of Ceuta, Juan Jesús Vivas: that the migrant minors who entered the autonomous city on July 30 and 31 must be returned to Morocco.

The Ceuta Juvenile Prosecutor's Office has transferred to the court several complaints from underage girls who arrived alone in the Spanish enclave during the mass entry between July 30 and 31 and who claim to have suffered abuse or harassment in reception centers of the regional protection network. As reported by El País and confirmed by sources from the Ceuta Prosecutor's Office, the public ministry has become aware of "some complaints" filed with the police, which have been placed at the disposal of the judicial body.

Isabel has her mother and her father-in-law, both elderly; she is in her nineties and he is almost there. It is a problem. Phew! For her mother, she has found two caregivers who live in the village: a young girl from Honduras, Carolina, who is sweet and hardworking, and an older one, María, about to retire, who came from Córdoba as a little girl and has managed as best she could her whole life. María often goes to the mother's house with her granddaughter, Naiara, who keeps them both entertained: she dances sevillanas for them and does her homework. Carolina stays at night. She is pregnant now. We will see how she manages in a few months. But what drive and charm she has. She also cleans houses during the day. María has done that for years.

After a month and almost twenty days sleeping in the open, the idea of being able to have a roof, even if it is in a temporary camp, is what has led numerous migrants in Ceuta to run out first thing this Friday to get a place in the facilities that the Spanish government has set up at the port of the autonomous city. A total of 1,700 have managed to do so. "We have successfully transferred the people without any significant incidents," assessed the Minister of Territorial Policy, Ángel Víctor Torres, through the social network X.

"Giving away Spanish passports? [...] That is over" and "The passport must be earned". The phrases were spoken this July by Alberto Núñez Feijóo during his assessment of the year as leader of the opposition. Amid the controversy over the amnesty lawof the Spanish government, and immersed in a competition with Vox over the toughness of the rhetoric on immigration, the president of the PP was already proposing a tightening of the conditions for accessing Spanish nationality. Just two months later, and in the midst of a crisis in Ceuta, the Popular Party goes a step further: they are now proposing to withdraw nationality from Spaniards of foreign origin who commit serious crimes.

Every time we talk about immigration we make a mistake. We speak of a single immigration when, in reality, there are two. And both pursue completely different objectives.The first is labor immigration. Its purpose is to incorporate workers where the market needs them. Spain needs it. Our population is aging, there is a shortage of professionals in numerous sectors, and a good part of the recent economic growth is explained precisely by the increase in the active population. Denying this is ignoring reality.The second is welcoming immigration. It is formed by people fleeing a war, persecution, violence, or extreme situations of exclusion. Here the criterion is no longer economic. It is moral. A democratic society must reserve resources to protect those who need them most.The problem is that politically we manage them by mixing them up. Labor immigration should respond, above all, to the needs of the labor market. What professional profiles do we need? In which sectors? With what integration conditions? Reception immigration should respond to a completely different question: how many people can we serve with dignity with the available resources?Australia and New Zealand are among the developed countries with a higher percentage of immigration. They are not closed societies. Quite the opposite. But they differentiate very clearly between labor immigration and humanitarian immigration. In the first case, residency remains closely linked to employment. If the employment link disappears and another job is not found within a reasonable period, the person is forced to leave the country. In a period of between three and six months. If you do not leave, you pay the cost of deportation and for three years you cannot re-enter the country. Result, very few people in overstay (illegal status). This does not prevent maintaining humanitarian reception programs. It simply avoids managing two completely different realities with the same criteria.Last year, in Spain, there were 840,000 immigrants in an irregular situation. Only 50,000 departures were ordered. And, finally, in two years only 8,000 were executed. Then there are the countless options offered to the immigrant without a job to stay: socio-formative roots, social roots, second chance roots...It is quite easy to stay in Spain without working. And I am sorry, but that cannot be. One comes here to do tourism and leave money, to work and contribute, and, only if appropriate, to be welcomed out of solidarity.We should manage labor immigration with a firm hand. Reception immigration, with an outstretched hand, but limited to a maximum number that we can assume and sustain.Labor immigration and reception immigration. Both are necessary. But let us not design one with the mechanisms of the other. Because then things like what happened in Ceuta occur.

The brand new mayoral candidate for Aliança Catalana in Vic, Elisenda Carrera, was until May the Councilor for International Cooperation as a representative of Ara Vic (PDeCat) in a municipal coalition government led by Junts. The rumors of her link to the far-right Aliança, which ARA already published that they had contacted, precipitated her resignation from the local executive to become a non-attached councilor, but now she has taken the definitive step to lead the Vic candidacy. The fact is that the work she carried out as a councilor clashes head-on with the party's discourse against international cooperation. What does the party leader, Sílvia Orriols, think about the subsidies for "migration and climate emergency with a gender perspective" that Carrera's portfolio granted?

The massive entry of immigrants into Ceuta on July 30 has triggered an unprecedented crisis in the city itself, but also in Spain and Europe. ARA journalists Albert Diumenjó and Núria Rius Montaner have produced numerous reports on this crisis from Ceuta. In this conversation, they explain what they have seen and what has surprised them. They were accompanied by the newspaper's Head of International, Francesc Millan, who provided a geopolitical perspective. The conversation was coordinated by deputy director Carla Turró.