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Ursula von der Leyen met the largest single breach of an external European frontier in recent memory by directing additional funds toward Rabat. The Moroccan regime had permitted or encouraged some sixty thousand men to swim and wade around the barriers at Ceuta, producing dozens of deaths and the collapse of local reception facilities.
Spanish authorities claimed most of the invaders had already been returned, yet local officials in the enclave counted between three and five thousand still present and declared the centers overwhelmed. Other member governments refused to accept Madrid's unverified assurances and prepared to restore internal controls at their own borders.
The episode reveals the European Commission as the active agent of demographic displacement, not a passive administrator. Its president treats the violation of a Christian nation's frontier as an occasion for further subsidy rather than a summons to defense.
National borders belong to the architecture of ordered peoples, not to the administrative convenience of supranational clerks. Scripture and the historic Christian commonwealths alike affirm that a people may lawfully close its gates against invasion and that rulers who open them invite judgment.
From the fall of Roman Hispania before successive waves of migration to the Reconquista that restored Ceuta itself to Christian rule, Europe has known that sovereignty is either exercised or surrendered. The present Commission revives the older pattern of tribute paid to external powers in exchange for temporary relief from pressure at the gates.
The faithful remnant in the historic nations must therefore withdraw consent from the Brussels apparatus. They must restore the authority of their own crowns and parliaments over entry, settlement, and the preservation of their households.
Every further payment to Morocco will confirm that the managerial priesthood serves the dispossession of Europe rather than its defense. The only remedy lies in the reassertion of national frontiers under the ancient law that a people belongs first to itself and to its God.
