Thousands of Migrants Enter Ceuta, a Spanish Enclave, From Morocco

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : The European Union offered to send Spain support from Frontex, its border and Coast Guard agency, to reestablish order.
53% : It said in a statement that it was dispatching military platoons to enforce border security, increasing air and naval support, and sending diving teams to patrol the waters.
52% : "The protection of the Union's external borders is a crucial part of our efforts to fight illegal migration," Magnus Brunner, the European Union's commissioner for Internal Affairs and Migration, wrote on social media.
49% : The two areas constitute the European Union's sole land border with Africa, and can draw large numbers of young men and other migrants seeking to enter the bloc.
44% : What is clear is that the border, on the African mainland, has also been a major source of domestic political tension for Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez -- both with anti-immigrant and conservative political opponents who accuse him of being lax on border control as well as pro-immigrant advocates who criticize the government for harsh immigration enforcement tactics.

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