New concern is caused by information according to which a second wave of mass migrant entry into Ceuta is being organized, a few days after the mass passage of tens of thousands of people that shocked Spain.
According to a report by British GB News, online calls for a new coordinated effort for mass border crossing are already circulating, with a specific date allegedly having been set.
Speaking to GB News, the director of the Border Security and Immigration Center of the Heritage Foundation, Lora Ries, warned that the possibility of a new mass entry of migrants does not concern only Spain.
As she stated, the threat «must definitely be taken seriously», arguing that the consequences of a new crisis may affect not only Spain but also the United Kingdom, as well as other European countries.
Second wave
According to the intelligence firm Golden Owl, based in Alicante, August 15 has already been set as a likely date for a new wave of mass migrant entry into Ceuta.
The company estimates that the online campaign calling for a new border crossing attempt has already acquired particularly wide reach.
The campaign allegedly reaches more than 1 million users
According to data cited by the newspaper The Olive Press, researchers at Golden Owl calculate that: 1) the relevant campaign has directly reached approximately 478,000 people, 2) in total more than 1.03 million members participate in public or loosely connected online groups where the relevant call is circulated.
This information, however, has not been officially confirmed by Spanish authorities.
Over 70,000 migrants crossed into Ceuta
It is recalled here that last week approximately 72,000 migrants entered Ceuta, with thousands of people, mostly young men, scaling border barriers and entering the Spanish autonomous city en masse.
The Spanish government was forced to deploy the army in order to restore order and begin the process of returning a large number of migrants to Morocco.
Despite these measures, according to GB News, approximately 2,500 migrants still remain in Ceuta.
Reports of a new wave via Facebook
While Spanish authorities continue to manage the aftermath of the first mass entry, on August 1 a call for a new mass entry of migrants into Spain via Ceuta was posted in a Facebook group numbering approximately 108,000 members.
The publication does not provide further details on the exact date of the alleged new attempt, nor does it state whether this information has been confirmed by Spanish authorities.
What justice is investigating
Meanwhile, the investigation into the mass entry of thousands of migrants into Ceuta is in full swing, with Spanish justice seeking answers as to whether authorities had received warnings prior to the unprecedented incident.
In fact, information from Spanish media, specifically El País, indicates that a new wave of influx is being prepared.
The judge of the Audiencia Nacional, María Tardón, asked the Guardia Civil to clarify whether in the days preceding the mass entry of migrants it had received any information or warning that could have forewarned authorities about what followed.
The development comes one day after statements by the Minister of the Interior of Spain, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, who argued that neither the Centro Nacional de Inteligencia (CNI) had received any warning regarding the fact that tens of thousands of migrants were about to swim across the border at El Tarajal.
The Audiencia Nacional requests full data from the Guardia Civil
As part of the judicial investigation, María Tardón requested that the Guardia Civil submit a detailed report regarding the measures implemented during the migration crisis.
Specifically, the judge requests an update on: 1) whether there was any warning before the mass entry of migrants, 2) the operational plan applied in Ceuta, 3) rescue operations for migrants spotted in Spanish territorial waters, 4) the number of dead, the causes and time of their death, 5) as well as identity and tracking data of survivors.
Investigating whether there was an organized operation
This is the second order from the Audiencia Nacional as part of the investigation launched following the lawsuit by the political party Iustitia Europa.
Earlier in the week, the judge had asked the Policía Nacional to draft a separate report to determine whether the mass entry of migrants into Ceuta constituted a «coordinated action».
The dark plan behind the invasion of Ceuta
The operation in Ceuta, organized by Morocco with the tacit approval and likely active guidance of Israel and the United States, led to calls for stricter border controls, mainly from the right political wing.
This serves the European Union, as it facilitates the already planned expansion of a comprehensive surveillance system, writes Dr. Peter F. Mayer.
60,000 people within 24 hours in a city with a population of 83,000 residents.
Ceuta, the Spanish enclave on the North African coast, was overwhelmed on July 30, 2026 by a migratory wave that exceeded all precedent. 57 dead, thousands of minors, chaotic scenes on the beach of El Tarajal.
The images were broadcast across the world, and with them spread the expected call for «more control», «stricter measures», and «better border guarding».
What mainstream media, as usual, conceal is that this crisis largely serves the European Commission.
It creates precisely the pressure needed for it to justify the implementation of three already completed surveillance packages without significant opposition.
These packages have about as much to do with migration as a traffic check has to do with road safety, constituting the technocratic dream of full digital recording of every person setting foot on European soil.
The Entry/Exit System (EES) — Universal biometric recording under the guise of border security
The Entry/Exit System (EES) became fully operational on April 10, 2026, less than four months before the crisis in Ceuta. What was presented as an innocent modernizing reform («faster processing», «end to passport stamps») constitutes in reality the largest biometric data collection machine ever created by Europe.
The system records, for every border crossing by third country nationals across 29 European countries, the following data: fingerprints, facial images, full travel document details, as well as the date and place of entry and exit.
Already more than 45 million border crossings have been recorded.
German MP Clara Bünger (of the Die Linke party) characteristically described it:
«Legally traveling passengers are subjected to unrestricted mass surveillance en route to their holiday destination.
The EU merges vast databases without adequate oversight and, in doing so, undermines constitutional limits on data usage».
The critical point is interoperability, a bureaucratic term that in practice means that your biometric data, once collected at the border, can become instantly available for multiple uses.
The European Law Blog published a particularly critical analysis of the system:
«Once biometric data are collected at the border for a specific purpose, they become permanently available through interconnected systems for purposes that were neither part of the initial legal basis for collection nor have ever been subjected to an independent necessity assessment».
This does not constitute a system flaw.
It is a feature of its design.
The EES database is connected, through the Shared Biometric Matching Service (sBMS), to the Visa Information System (VIS), ETIAS, and, as expected, to law enforcement databases.
Europol has access to these systems.
The boundary between migration control and police investigation is not simply crossed; it is essentially abolished.
Incidentally, regarding databases, the huge expansion of data centers is connected mainly with the creation of this surveillance infrastructure.
The claim that all this is primarily about artificial intelligence functions as a smokescreen.
The crisis in Ceuta now offers the perfect excuse to present all this as «necessary»: 60,000 people within 24 hours, such an event, it is argued, cannot be managed with a simple entry and exit recording system.
What gets lost amid the potentially artificially amplified hysteria is that the system had already been designed long before this crisis, had passed through the legislative process, and had already been implemented.
The crisis serves simply as an after the fact justification for something that had in reality already become a fait accompli.
ETIAS — Ideological assessment prior to departure
Even more extensive than the EES is the European Travel Information and Authorization System (ETIAS), which is expected to become operational in the second half of 2026.
Citizens of 59 visa exempt countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada, will in the future have to apply for a digital travel authorization prior to their departure.
At first glance it may look like a simple bureaucratic process.
In reality, however, it is a preventive control system: the traveler fills out an electronic form, pays a fee, and an algorithm decides whether they will even be allowed to board the aircraft.
Without human border control, without a direct right of appeal, without personalized human assessment.
The Statewatch report reveals that «an applicant's data are checked against a series of "risk indicators"», indicators based on automated profiling, with criteria that remain unknown.
In this case as well, large scale data storage and processing infrastructure is required. The system will cross reference data with European watchlists, compare identities with other databases, and use a «screening rules» algorithm that will flag certain individuals as potential risks.
The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) has already warned that «the use of screening rules to profile data subjects and automatically identify potentially dangerous persons» creates significant risks.
«Denial of entry into the Schengen area can have a series of negative consequences for individuals: restrictions on free movement, financial impacts for business travel, and health problems if required medical care is not available in the EU».
From a legal standpoint, ETIAS raises serious questions.
The Court of Justice of the European Union has already ruled, in the PNR case (C-817/19), that indiscriminate data processing of all passengers without differentiation based on actual risk may violate the principle of necessity enshrined in the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights.
ETIAS moves in this direction, with the difference that it uses automated systems and artificial intelligence without meaningful judicial control.
The connection to the crisis in Ceuta is obvious: the argument will be that people must be checked before reaching European borders to prevent similar situations. Prevention instead of reaction.
What is presented as a logical security measure can, according to its critics, constitute the beginning of a system in which the state will determine who has the right to enter European territory, based on secret algorithmic criteria not subject to meaningful democratic control.
The Pact on Migration and Asylum
The third element of this unholy trinity is the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum, which entered into force on June 12, 2026, just seven weeks before the events in Ceuta.
The Pact includes a special clause: the so called «instrumentalization» of migration.
When a third country deliberately uses migratory flows as a political tool, EU member states can suspend standard asylum procedures and activate emergency powers.
This is precisely what, according to the analysis of the text, happened in Ceuta.
Morocco relaxed border controls, as it had also done in 2021, in order to exert political pressure.
Back then the issue concerned the conflict in Western Sahara; this time, according to the Spanish government, it concerned a misinterpretation of a Supreme Court ruling.
However, the analysis of The Federal argues that: «Such organized movements cannot take place without at least the passive cooperation of Moroccan authorities».
The Pact creates a paradoxical dynamic: Morocco holds control of the «faucet». When it opens it, the EU activates the «instrumentalization» clause, suspends basic rights, and further expands surveillance infrastructure. In return, Morocco receives concessions and financial support. The EU acquires its databases.
Both sides benefit, at the expense, however, of people who perish in the Mediterranean and citizens whose individual liberties are gradually restricted.
Why nothing is ever reversed
The deeper pattern is in all cases the same:
1) A crisis appears, Ceuta 2021, Ceuta 2026. 2) Emergency measures are introduced: accelerated procedures, biometric data collection, and suspension of fundamental rights. 3) Emergency measures transform into permanent infrastructure: EES, ETIAS, upgrading of Eurodac, the Migration Pact. 4) This permanent infrastructure does not necessarily reduce the probability of a subsequent crisis; in some cases it actually increases it, as it provides third countries with more pressure tools. 5) Nevertheless, they will never be abolished, because who would want to «open the borders» anymore?
This is the ratchet mechanism: a mechanism that moves in only one direction.
Every crisis justifies more controls, more surveillance, more databases.
Yet no period of calm is ever considered sufficient reason for their abolition.
The population ends up playing the role of the useful idiot.
When 60,000 people enter a city of 83,000 residents, the demand for stricter measures becomes intense.
When the EU subsequently introduces biometric databases, preventive controls, and emergency clauses, these are often accepted.
Citizens applaud measures supposedly concerning only «migrants», ignoring that in a digital system the difference between a migrant and a citizen can be simply a setting of a parameter.
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