Ceuta mayor says not enough security forces are on the ground yet

The mayor of Ceuta, Juan Jesus Vivas, has criticized the deployment of security forces and immigration officials as insufficient to handle the migrant crisis.

Ceuta mayor says not enough security forces are on the ground yet
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​Not ​enough security ‌forces and immigration ​officials have been deployed ‌in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, the mayor Juan Jesus ‌Vivas said on Thursday, ‌almost a week after tens of thousands of migrants ⁠rushed ​through ⁠the border from Morocco.

"Security forces have ⁠not been deployed with the ​intensity required by the situation ⁠we are still facing," he ⁠told ​a committee in the European Parliament. "Immigration services ⁠have not been sufficiently reinforced to ⁠handle ⁠the border rejections," he added.

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