US Issues Travel Warning For Spanish Enclave Amid Migrant Crisis
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0 Share Newsweek is a Trust Project member See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Americans have been told to “reconsider travel” to Ceuta after tens of thousands of migrants crossed into the Spanish enclave in northern Africa on Thursday, triggering a diplomatic crisis and fierce political fallout.
The U.S. State Department said in its Level 3 advisory issued on Saturday that Americans should "reconsider travel" to the area because of "risks posed to their safety and security", after President Donald Trump and other Republicans had seized on the incident to make warnings about America's future if Democrats regain power .
Mainland Spain is under a Level 2 advisory telling Americans to “exercise increased caution due to terrorism and unrest.”
Spain’s Interior Ministry reported that as many as 60,000 people had arrived in Ceuta from Morocco within several days, though most later went back. The Spanish government also confirmed that 67 people had died by Saturday, either in the water or amid a crush close to a coastal barrier.
Italy temporarily reinstated border checks on arrivals from Spain, while officials in Finland and Denmark backed calls to consider suspending Spain from the Schengen area over its handling of the crisis.
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez wrote in a letter to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen that some EU partners’ reaction was “selfish, polarizing and unlawful” fueled by “prejudice, fake news, ignorance or political interest.”
Von der Leyen credited Spanish and Moroccan law enforcement with containing the crisis and said “not a single person reached mainland Spain or the rest of the EU.”
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