Donald Trump says Spain's "weak law, bad management" on migration crisis

President Trump blamed Spain’s migration rules and border enforcement for the recent mass crossing into Ceuta, the Spanish territory in North Africa, after Spanish local officials reported some 60,000 migrants arrived from Morocco in two days and at least 41 died attempting the journey. Trump and his administration argued that Spain’s immigrant regularization program encouraged the surge. Spanish authorities rejected that, attributing the crisis to criminal smuggling groups and insisting they enforce borders while allowing orderly worker migration. Activists cited misinformation and economic pressures in Morocco as contributing factors. The exact trigger remains unclear, and the dispute underscores tensions over migration policy between Washington and Madrid.