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The recent migrant invasion of Spain is a warning to America. If we are not paying attention, we could soon be watching the same thing unfold on our own borders.
More than sixty thousand young men from Morocco, poured in two small Spanish territories in northern Africa in what can only be described as an invasion. While a few harrowing stories are told of swimming miles of open water, many simply swam or rafted around a simple surf fence separating the two sovereign territories. Dozens (at least) died during the crossing. Let’s put that in perspective: sixty thousand people exceeds the population of ninety-five percent of American cities and towns. These two small communities were overwhelmed, with residents sheltering indoors, shops closed for fear of looting, and migrants sleeping on beaches with little food or water.
What set this off? A ruling by Spain's Supreme Court — issued just days after our own Supreme Court's birthright citizenship blunder — holding that migrants captured at sea cannot be immediately returned to their home country. The word spread instantly on social media: swim to Spanish territory and you have the right to stay. Spain's own Territorial Policy Minister acknowledged the court ruling as a direct contributing factor. Legal experts say eventual deportation may still be possible, but not before lengthy, individual due process proceedings for each of these sixty thousand people.
Sound familiar? This is exactly the dynamic playing out in America. Lower federal courts have repeatedly blocked President Trump's orders to detain and deport illegal aliens. Every time a judge grants due process rights to migrants who entered unlawfully, it sends a signal that reaches the next wave of potential crossers.
Despite lower court activists, our Supreme Court has delivered some genuine wins, including ruling that Trump can, in fact, deport Haitians and others on Temporary Protected Status, and those decisions are largely unreviewable by lower courts. That was the right call. But not long after, another federal district judge blocked deportations of Somalis anyway.
The lesson learned from Spain is not subtle. When courts strip nations of their ability to enforce their borders, the results are not theoretical, they are as real as sixty thousand people sleeping on a beach.
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