The president of the United States, Donald Trump, again mentioned this Sunday the migratory crisis that Ceuta, a Spanish city located in North Africa, experienced last summer, to defend the advantages of his migratory policy and ask for votes for Republicans in the midterm elections on November 3.
In an interview on the "Sunday Morning Futures" program on Fox News, the president maintained that the situation experienced in the Spanish city was an example of the risks that, in his opinion, other countries face. “Hundreds of thousands of people arrived in Spain a month ago. I said: ‘Oh, that’s going to be a problem’,” he stated.
Trump, immersed in a campaign tour to try to reverse the bad data that polls predict for Republicans, defended the situation of the United States in terms of security and migration, and attributed that improvement to his management at the head of the White House. “It was a bad country two years ago. It was an unsafe country. Now we have the lowest crime figures recorded in the last 100 years, and that despite the fact that they let in many criminals, and they were absolutely enormous amounts of people,” he pointed out.
Comparisons with Spain and France in the midst of the election campaign
In that context, Donald Trump resorted to comparing it with what happened in Spain in August during the Ceuta crisis, after the entry of tens of thousands of people from Morocco on July 30 and 31, 2026. “If I were running a South American country or any country, they also came from all over Africa, it would be different. Now look at what they are doing to Europe. Look at Spain,” he stated.
The president of the United States also referred to the altercations that France has been experiencing in recent days and assured: “the people who are causing the problems are people who hate Spain and hate France and hate Italy.”
In addition, Donald Trump contrasted what is happening these days in France with his migratory policy and recalled that, when he met the French president, Emmanuel Macron, he told him: “you are destroying France. You are letting in people who hate your country.”
Before the rally in Michigan
Trump spoke this Sunday on the Fox News program before heading to Michigan, where he is scheduled to hold a rally, a day after former president Barack Obama also went to that state for a campaign event in support of Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed.