🇪🇸 LIVE: Spain says around 49,000 migrants entered from Morocco in just 24 hours, weeks after 1.17 MILLION undocumented migrants applied for legal status. Here’s EVERYTHING you need to know: - Around 49,000 people crossed into Ceuta from Morocco by land and sea in a single day. - Ceuta has a population of only 85,000, meaning the arrivals were equal to more than half of the city's population in just one day. - This could be the largest one-day migrant influx into Ceuta and Spain's biggest since at least 2021. - Ceuta, along with nearby Melilla, is Spanish territory in North Africa and forms the European Union's only land border with Africa. Hence, reaching Ceuta means entering Spanish and EU territory. - Spanish authorities say they will seek to return these migrants as quickly as legally possible. WHY did this happen? Officials say there is no confirmed single trigger. Authorities are investigating several possible factors, including: - Whether Spain’s decision to regularise undocumented migrants played any role - Whether organised smuggling and social media networks coordinated or encouraged the crossings - Whether rumours spread that migrants reaching Ceuta would be difficult to deport following a recent ruling limiting some immediate returns by sea - Whether Moroccan border enforcement was temporarily reduced or overwhelmed, similar to the 2021 Ceuta migration crisis. Is this the beginning of a wider European migration crisis?(Coin Bureau)