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Residents of Spanish enclave of Ceuta angered by mass influx of migrants

The border has now been reinforced and tens of thousands of people have since reportedly returned to Morocco voluntarily.

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00:00Residents of Ceuta are angry after an unprecedented border crisis saw up to 60,000 migrants flood
00:07from Morocco into the tiny Spanish enclave within a 24-hour period.
00:11The border has since been reinforced and tens of thousands of migrants have reportedly returned
00:16to Morocco voluntarily.
00:17But shops were closed and bread was in short supply as the North African Territory struggled
00:22on Friday to cope with the influx.
00:26This can't be allowed.
00:27I'm not against immigration, but I believe it has to be regulated immigration.
00:32And this isn't regulated.
00:35We neighbors here can't go about our daily lives.
00:38We can't live our lives.
00:39We can't do absolutely anything.
00:41And we're at our wit's end because nobody's helping us.
00:46The influx triggered a political crisis in Madrid with the army mobilized and Prime Minister
00:51Pedro Sanchez calling it a violation of Spain's territorial integrity.
00:56Moroccans who crossed into Ceuta say they had hoped to find better work opportunities
01:00in Spain, but were returning given the mayhem in the enclave.
01:04There's no opportunity here in Morocco.
01:06I am a student here in the high school of teachers in Titouan, but actually there is no chance to
01:14live there.
01:15So that's why.
01:17I spent maybe 14 years for studying, but nothing just sitting in your home or working for 12 hours for
01:28a less salary.
01:30So that's why I come in to here.
01:39Dozens of people are believed to have died in the rush on the border.
01:43There have been mixed reactions to the incident from other European countries, including calls
01:48for Spain to be suspended from the Schengen free movement zone.
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