{"id":78480,"date":"2025-08-12T20:09:01","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T20:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=78480"},"modified":"2025-08-12T20:09:01","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T20:09:01","slug":"migrants-swim-from-morocco-to-ceuta-as-officials-say-enclave-overwhelmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/08\/12\/migrants-swim-from-morocco-to-ceuta-as-officials-say-enclave-overwhelmed\/","title":{"rendered":"Migrants swim from Morocco to Ceuta as officials say enclave \u2018overwhelmed\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1KlCnI.img?w=534&amp;h=427&amp;m=6\" alt=\"A child trying to reach Ceuta is escorted out of the sea by Moroccan police last month. The enclave said it now had 528 foreign children but should only hold 27. Photograph: Europa\/Getty\" width=\"405\" height=\"324\" \/><\/p>\n<p>About 100 people, including several children, risked their lives by trying to swim from Morocco into\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/20\/ceuta-influx-highlights-fragility-of-eus-approach-to-migration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">Spain\u2019s north African enclave of Ceuta<\/a> early on Saturday morning, as the territory\u2019s authorities warned that its overwhelmed reception system was close to collapse. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/world\/migrants-swim-from-morocco-to-ceuta-as-officials-say-enclave-overwhelmed\/ar-AA1KlCo3?ocid=winp2fptaskbar&amp;cvid=b97870dcaf424a6a8ff8ef305a88ee15&amp;ei=23\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>About 100 people, including several children, risked their lives by trying to swim from Morocco into\u00a0Spain\u2019s north African enclave of Ceuta early&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":78481,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[199],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-78480","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-immigration"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Ceuta.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78482,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78480\/revisions\/78482"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}