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2022-06-25 Africa North
New EU migrant chaos: More than 2,000 migrants storm fence into Spanish enclave bordering Morocco using shears to cut wire and rush past guards in chaotic scenes at the European Union's only land border in Africa
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • More than 2,000 migrants tried to storm fence separating Spain's Melilla enclave from Morocco on Friday

  • Over 500 managed to enter the border control area after cutting a fence - and 130 able to enter Melilla

  • Video showed the migrants cheering and raising their arms in celebration as they ran through Melilla

  • Melilla and Ceuta have the EU's only land borders with Africa, making them a magnet for migrants
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Posted by Skidmark 2022-06-25 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [1799 views ]  Top
 File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants 

1 They build up on the Moroccan side of the border, then when spirit moves — a couple times a year, generally hundreds at a time — Morocco lets them storm the barbed wire surrounding the seaside enclave.
Posted by trailing wife 2022-06-25 13:57||   2022-06-25 13:57|| Front Page Top

2 What if fence were electrified to 10x the lethal voltage? I can't be the only one to have come up with this solution.
Posted by jpal 2022-06-25 14:34||   2022-06-25 14:34|| Front Page Top

3 I reckon I'd call it "Camp Paco."
No drugs or caffeine or tobacco,
Just maintenance mush
As we add to the crush
Till they're storming the walls of Morocco.
Posted by Thomotle the Still Dead2461 2022-06-25 15:19||   2022-06-25 15:19|| Front Page Top

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