The daughter of immigrants from Pakistan is in charge of tightening the conditions for obtaining permanent residency in the United Kingdom. The British Home Secretary, Labour's Shabana Mahmood, announced this Tuesday a reform that represents a fundamental change in the migration model on the islands. However, she has offered a mixed bag, pressured by the more left-wing sectors of the party.

"Nothing has changed even a little bit. There are thousands of immigrants who still remain in the city, many of them on the street," stated the spokesperson for the Ceuta government, Alejandro Ramírez, and the Minister of the Presidency of the same executive, Alberto Gaitán. They said this coinciding with the three-month anniversary of the massive influx of migrants at the end of July. According to the data provided by the regional executive this Saturday, at this moment there are 7,500 people housed in the different camps set up, to which should be added those who would still be outside these facilities. "We estimate that currently between 3,000 and 4,000 people could still be outside the accommodations provided by the [Spanish] government. Regarding the minors, I wouldn't know the exact figure, but they tell us that there could still be between 400 and 500 on the street," stated Gaitán.

Seven of the ten neighborhoods with the highest percentage of foreign population in the State are located in Barcelona and l'Hospitalet de Llobregat, according to the latest edition of the urban indicators from the National Statistics Institute (INE), published this Wednesday. In fact, the five neighborhoods with the highest percentage of foreign residents are all found in the Ciutat Vella district of the Catalan capital.

Issiaga Sylla was 19 years old when he arrived in Catalonia completely alone. He says he did not understand the culture, nor did he speak Catalan or Spanish, and he barely knew anyone here from his country. He is from Guinea Conakry. "I didn't interact with anyone," he confesses.

What makes the housing problem most intractable is that every effort is made to dissociate it from its main cause, which is none other than immigration.

The Ministry of Defense has sent to the Ceuta duty court and the Public Prosecutor's Office the audio recordings published by Eldiario.es in which at least three soldiers deployed in the autonomous city boast amidst laughter about beating up migrants during their surveillance shift. Margarita Robles' department has incorporated the recordings into the documentation previously sent following Amnesty International's report on allegations of beatings and mistreatment. Defense assures that it is doing so "to preserve the good name of the armed forces".

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.