Under Violent Invasion

"In an attempt to stop the Guardia Civil getting close to the break-in area, the migrants … [pelted] officers with plastic containers of excrement and quicklime, sticks and stones, as well as using aerosols as flame-throwers."
Guardia Civil statement

"I hope the EU is working on a global policy on this: it may be our problem initially, but tomorrow, or in a week’s time, or a month’s, it’ll be at the heart of Europe."
"We’ve never, ever, ever had 1,000 migrants arriving in Spain each weekend. And all this could just be for starters: there’s a lot of the summer left and there are thousands and thousands of migrants arriving on the coasts of north Africa and thousands and thousands more who have been waiting to cross for months or years."
Algeciras mayor, José Ignacio Landaluce

"Migrants are sleeping wherever they can: the police stations are full, the converted sports centres are full and the reception centres are full."
"There’s a reception centre for minors in La Línea de la Concepción that’s meant for 30 people. Right now there are 200 little kids there, sleeping on the floor. You’ve even got people sleeping on the decks of maritime rescue boats because there’s nowhere else for them."
Carmen Velayos, secretary general, United Police union, Cádiz

"We’re working on an emergency plan to reinforce the system and give more help to the NGOs working on arrivals."
"I know this is a problem and that the apparatus is being overwhelmed."
Magdalena Valerio, minister for work, migration and social security

Police officer keep watch over some of the people who managed to jump off the border fence between Spain and Morocco, in Ceuta, on Thursday. Photograph: Reduan/EPA

Ah, the sensibilities and sensitivities of Western nations. To them falls the responsibility of succouring the dissatisfied citizens of the failed nations of the world, those truly third-world 'authority' figures incapable of, or unwilling to stop stuffing their personal bank accounts in favour of responsibly administering the affairs of the countries they lead, in civil infrastructure, order and good government, education, health and the environment required for business to flourish, establishing trade with their neighbours and overseeing a future where their populations can aspire to advance their interests.

Spain, Greece and Italy, with their vulnerable, reachable shores in overland journeys and Mediterranean crossings, both risky to human life, have opened Europe to an invasion of economic migrants, heavy on young men prepared to undergo hardships for the prize of establishing themselves, not necessarily in Spain, Greece or Italy, but further along, in wealthier Europe with established social welfare programs and a humanitarian conscience urging them to open their doors wide and embrace those who now strain those generous welfare programs; in the process failing the needs of their indigenous populations.

When Italy stood its ground under a new administration, refusing to take in any more of the haven seekers, migrants and professed refugees that have burdened it beyond the capacity to manage the unstoppable surge, Spain stepped in magnanimously offering to take in the spurned sea voyagers. Generosity of spirit such as this through the universal humanitarian impulse that appears to have stricken Western Europe in particular speeds its welcome message through the grapevine of informal communication, spurring even greater numbers to head for that impulsively generous nation.

Police help people down from the the border fence between Morocco and Ceuta, Spain. Photograph: Reuters Tv/Reuters

Those countries with a conscience as wide as the world, with an economy struggling to catch its breath, and a culture, heritage and social life based on religious devotion remain oblivious to the long-term sea change they have invited, to transform themselves from what is familiar, comfortable and routine in a well-oiled national community, to one that will be overwhelmed in due time to become grossly unfamiliar, uncomfortable and routine in a welter of change that will encompass law and order subservience to a theocratic ideology whose prospects to endure while all others fall, becomes insurmountable.

Had they but paid attention, the Thursday event where the Spanish enclave of Ceuta was stormed so Moroccans could swarm in the hundreds over the border, overwhelming the capacity of Spanish border police to govern and protect the border from incursion reflected in large part the psychosis of violence and defiance to authority that will inundate Spain in due time. What news sources describe as an 'incident' saw 800 people viciously throwing sticks, stones, bags of excrement at the Guardia Civil stationed at the border.

The intruders used quicklime, aerosols whose use is as flame throwers to make their point that no authority, no amount of precautions, no human agency, no fences however impervious, will hold them from penetrating a border they aim to conquer. With the use of angle grinders and shears men focused on mayhem and insinuating themselves as 'migrants' in a sovereign nation that has no need of augmenting their population with such as they -- lawbreakers, criminals, self-entitled thugs -- spurning normal, legal routes to emigration, forcing entrance through the fence. Many took care to protect themselves with homemade shields and body armour.

To further demonstrate their intentions, once having broken through the fence those seeking haven in Spain -- or Germany, Sweden, Norway -- continued to mount attacks on border agents and their security vehicles. Bags of hashish and Molotov cocktails were later removed from the possession of the migrants by the Guardia Civil. And civil they most certainly were, although ten had to be taken to hospital for treatment to wounds the attacks against them caused. These were ten Guardia Civil officers sprayed with "some type of acid, lime or white liquid" causing burns, respiratory and cognitive issues.

And as a consequence of the violence they caused, did Spain summarily boot the 602 men who did succeed in barging through and over the border fence? Actually they were politely escorted into Ceuta's migrant reception centre, meant to be a temporary structure for processing, but on the basis of this ongoing, unstoppable invasion, obviously permanent in purpose, to begin the journey to exercising the 'right' of foreign intruders to be welcomed by civilized societies prepared to accept an invasion that will eventually overturn all that is 'normal' in their societies.

Spain, so far this year, has had its resources strained by the entrance of close to 20,000 asylum seekers, economic migrants, refugees from their national homelands. A country like Canada whose borders are so distant from those of Africa for example, could never be imagined to be vulnerable to a similar situation. Next door to the United States of America which has shut itself away from illegal migration, it acts nonetheless as a conduit for those same illegals to enter Canada. And Canada is now desperately attempting to cope with a similar number of entrants this year, from Haiti and Nigeria.

The 602 migrants who crossed into Spanish territory were transported to a temporary migrant reception centre in Cueta, which had already been over capacity  Credit: EFE News Agency / Alamy Live News