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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Donald Trump’s intervention in the Ceuta crisis is a distraction from the serious issue of migration

Migrants sit outside the CETI short-stay migrant centre in the Spanish north African exclave of Ceuta on 1 August - (AFP/Getty)

As ever, Donald Trump was transparent about his motive for misleading the American people. He told a cabinet meeting about the “catastrophe” in Spain. “It looks like an invasion of a country. Hundreds of thousands of people,” he said.

“And that same thing’s going to happen to us if the Republicans don’t get elected.” He is worried about the midterm elections in three months’ time, in which the Democrats are currently projected to win both the House of Representatives and the Senate.

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