Special to WorldTribune.com
By John J. Metzler, August 5, 2026
PARIS — A stunning and unexpected migrant rush into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta prompted alarm bells across Europe just as the major vacation season was in full swing.
But just as over 50,000 largely Moroccan and sub-Saharan African migrants surged across the common frontier of this tiny territory on the Moroccan coast, then the mystical migrant onslaught reversed like the tides and the people started going home!
Was this a ruse? Or a test? A dystopian dream in the heat of Summer?
The French daily Le Figaro headlined, "Europe under the Shock of a Wave of Migrants from Ceuta."

Ceuta has been a strategic Spanish toe-hold on the African coast since 1580. It sits aside the strategic and narrow Strait of Gibraltar, which in recent decades has been a major conduit of
illegal migrants from the African continent entering sovereign Spanish territory and in the wider context the European Union.
Along with its larger sister
