At a Spanish Border, a Coordinated Scramble
MELILLA, Spain — More than 1,000 African migrants rushed toward the high fences topped with razor wire. They were met by the Moroccan police, who, with the support of the Spanish military police and a Spanish helicopter, thwarted their plan to scale the fences and enter Europe through this tiny Spanish enclave that clings to northern Morocco.
It was the second mass crossing to fail this week and one of the largest since May, when hundreds of migrants launched themselves at the fences on three separate occasions.
Worried about a surge in migration, the European Union authorities this year granted Spain 10 million euros, about $13.5 million, to reinforce the fences at Melilla and Ceuta, another Spanish enclave. Spanish officials have now covered them with wire mesh to make them harder to scale, creating an ever more elaborate obstacle course.
The new measures, combined with more aggressive policing on the Moroccan side, have reduced the number of migrants who succeeded in crossing since May, but seem to have done little to deter them from trying. . . .
I recall long ago that as a NATO member Spain had a tendency to position its defenses facing to the South, it was said, because it had a long memory, but that memory doesn't seem to be that long anymore, at least when it comes to their version of America's open-borders overlords.
Spain may not want to be overrun, but its government's first concern seems to be humanitarian, and that's when the West loses. It is actually more humane to have a clear show of force against people who are determined to invade. Since most people don't want to commit suicide, they will stop trying, which in the long run will mean fewer deaths and much less misery for people traveling hundreds of miles, getting robbed, murdered and so on.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/24/world/europe/migrants-say-storming-of-spanish-border-fences-is-carefully-coordinated.html?_r=1
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