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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Antonio Sempere and Suman Naishadham

Thousands of migrants in Ceuta wait in limbo while Spain figures out what to do with them

Spain Ceuta - (Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

For weeks, migrants in the Spanish territory of Ceuta had gathered on a beach away from the city center, sleeping on cardboard sheets, under reed huts and guarding their few possessions in tattered plastic bags.

They were gone by Thursday morning after Spanish police escorted them to makeshift shelters. But an hour later, other migrants were combing through the trash they had left behind for anything useful: an abandoned mattress, plastic chairs, sheets, a scrap of tarp.

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