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🇪🇸🇲🇦 This is what Ceuta looked like overnight Dealing with the consequences will take a very long time. Reuters reports that migrants who arrived en masse in the Spanish exclave have begun returning home to Morocco. They say hunger, exhaustion and hostility from local residents have shattered their hopes...

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Everyone is posting about Ceuta. Almost nobody knows where it is or why it exists, so let me fix that, because the history is the entire story. Ceuta is not in Spain. It is in Africa. It sits on the north coast of Morocco, an eighteen square kilometre wedge of Spanish soil surrounded by Moroccan territory and the sea. Population around 83,000. Together with Melilla to the east, it forms the only land border the European Union has with the African continent. Look at a map. The Strait of Gibraltar is fourteen kilometres wide at its narrowest. Eight and a half miles. The ancients called the two headlands guarding it the Pillars of Hercules, the Rock of Gibraltar to the north and Monte Hacho, which sits inside Ceuta, to the south. That gate has been the hinge of the Mediterranean world for three thousand years. Now the history, which people keep getting backwards. The Romans held it and called it Septem Fratres, the seven brothers, which is where the name Ceuta comes from. Vandals, then Byzantines. In 711 a Berber commander named Tariq ibn Ziyad crossed that strait and began the conquest of Spain. The rock he landed at still carries his name. Jabal Tariq. Gibraltar. Then it turned the other way. Portugal took Ceuta in 1415, an event historians treat as the opening move of the Age of Discovery. When Portugal regained its independence from the Spanish crown in 1640, Ceuta alone chose to stay Spanish. Portugal formally ceded it in the Treaty of Lisbon in 1668. So Ceuta has been Spanish for 358 years, and European for 611. Morocco, as a modern independent state, has existed since 1956. That matters, because Morocco claims both enclaves as colonial relics. Spain calls them integral national territory and EU soil, which legally they are. And here is the pattern nobody mentions. In 2002 Morocco quietly occupied a tiny uninhabited rock called Perejil, a few hundred metres off the coast. Spain retook it with helicopters and special forces. In May 2021, after Spain admitted the leader of the Polisario Front for medical treatment, Moroccan border guards stood back and roughly 8,000 people walked and swam into Ceuta over two days. Spain's prime minister called it a serious crisis for Spain and for Europe. In 2022 Spain reversed itself and endorsed Morocco's autonomy plan for Western Sahara, and the border trouble stopped. Read that sequence again. The border opens when Madrid displeases Rabat. It closes when Madrid complies. There is a name for that. It is called instrumentalised migration, and the EU used the same language about Belarus pushing people at the Polish frontier. Whether it rises to an act of war is a lawyer's argument. That it is coercion using human beings as the instrument is not seriously disputed by anyone who follows the file. Now the current numbers, and I am going to be careful because everyone else is not. Ceuta's regional president says 60,000 entered, more than seventy percent of the city's population. Spain's Interior Ministry says close to 50,000 since Thursday, and that more than 48,300 have already been returned to Morocco. Al Jazeera reported 1,500 to 2,000 over ten days. Those figures cannot all be true. At least 18 people are dead, drowned or crushed at the breakwater. Some reports say more. Children are sleeping in parks. Spain has deployed the army. Italy is talking about extraordinary measures. The one number I am confident in is the dead one, and it will rise. So before the next hot take flies past you, remember what you are actually looking at. A European city on African soil, older in Spanish hands than the United States has existed, sitting on the narrowest gate between two continents, being used as leverage in a fight about Western Sahara. That is not a migration story. That is a border being used as a weapon, and people are drowning in it. 🦋

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Mamdani’s Pied-à-Terre Tax Hits Full-Time New Yorkers — And He’s Fine With That Mayor Zohran Mamdani is requiring longtime New York City residents who live in the city full-time to prove it — simply to avoid a new surcharge on their homes. Notices have been sent telling some owners they “may” face five-figure tax bills unless they submit documentation confirming their property is a primary residence. When pressed on the errors, the mayor largely dismissed the concerns, stating that the Department of Finance had “identified homes that may be subject to the surcharge” and that owners have time to appeal. “As required by the law, the Department of Finance sent informational resources to homeowners to ensure that they understood the tax… and also if they did not believe it to apply to them, that they had the time in order to be able to appeal,” Mamdani said. (Video: AI) At the same time, illegal immigrants continue to receive free housing and services costing New York City well over $1 billion this year. Full-time residents who own and live in valuable properties are being treated as if they must justify their presence. Why would anyone who has built equity and a life here choose to remain in a city that subjects them to this burden while others receive a free pass? Legal residents of means will answer by voting with their feet and relocating to cities and states that are more financially welcoming. This trend is already underway, and places like Florida and Texas are capitalizing on it.

Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸

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Narinder Kaur on TV dismissing thousands and thousands of illegal arrivals as “not a big deal.” “Thirty, forty thousand people coming in a population of sixty-seven, sixty-eight million isn’t the big deal you think it is… We are not being overrun.” It’s closer to 200,000 illegal arrivals in the last five years alone. Tell that to the families who suddenly have hundreds of young men, most of them with no paperwork, no known history, and no connection to the area, dumped on their doorstep. Look at Linton-on-Ouse. A quiet North Yorkshire village of around 700 people. The plan? House 1,200 single adult male asylum seekers on the former RAF base right in the middle of it. Overnight, the locals become the minority in their own community. Or Piddington in Oxfordshire. A village of roughly 350 residents. The proposal? Up to 1,250 single adult males on the neighbouring MoD site. That is more than three times the entire population of the village. Residents face becoming a minority in the place they grew up, with a park used by local children sitting right next to it. This is real communities being transformed without consent, without consultation, and without any real idea who these men are or what they have done. People don’t want it. They never asked for it. And it’s easy to sit in a television studio and declare it’s “not a big deal.” It is a big deal. Go out and ask the people who will actually be affected. They will tell you.

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Longtime New Yorkers Wrongly Hit With Massive “Pied-à-Terre” Tax Bills — Maybe It’s Time to Leave New Yorkers who have lived in the city for decades — many in their only home — are receiving five-figure tax notices under the new pied-à-terre surcharge. The tax was sold as a levy on wealthy owners of luxury second homes. Instead, longtime residents say they are being forced to prove they actually live in the places they have called home for 30 years or more. Karen Young, who has lived in New York since 1972, received a $43,000 bill on her West 95th Street brownstone. “Whoever’s behind this, who I can only assume is the mayor, didn’t take the 30 seconds to research. Is this a witch hunt? As a faithful New Yorker since 1972, I find it not only insulting but painful. Is anybody paying any attention, or any thinking, or two minutes of research? Just look me up!” (Video: AI) An 81-year-old woman got a $55,000 notice addressed to her late husband. “I have lived here for 30 years; it’s my only residence. The City of New York didn’t get that right.” The appeal process is described as cumbersome, with tight deadlines and technical hurdles even for those who pay taxes, utilities, and jury duty from the same address. What was framed as “taxing the rich” is landing hard on people who never left. New York City is already seeing an exodus of residents to lower-tax states like Florida and Texas. It will be interesting to watch whether this pied-à-terre tax accelerates that trend. Once the high earners leave, who’s left for Mayor Mamdani to tax?

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