The Government estimates that at this moment around 10,000 immigrants in irregular situation continue in Ceuta. Of them, about 6,000 would already be accommodated in one of the facilities enabled by the administration, while between 3,000 and 4,000 would still be spread out in the streets, the mountains, and the beaches of the autonomous city.
These updated figures come from government sources and are based on data collected by the State Security Forces and Corps deployed on the ground in Ceuta.
The new estimate practically doubles the calculations that until now had been conveyed by the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska. On August 13, two weeks after the massive entry of about 80,000 people, he stated that there were about 5,000 migrants left in the city, a figure he reiterated in his appearance in Congress at the end of the month.
The Executive manages this new balance while advancing the operation to transfer immigrants to the tents set up in the port, with a capacity for about 1,700 people. After the moments of tension recorded early in the morning, with runs and police charges, the same sources indicate that 500 have already been accommodated and that throughout the day the occupation of the remaining spots will be completed.
This Tuesday, the minister in charge of the single command in Ceuta, Ángel Víctor Torres, pointed out that there were 4,160 already accommodated. Added to the 1,700 available spots in the port, about 6,000 people are reached in resources controlled by the Executive, which will facilitate their registration and the initiation of expulsion proceedings in case they do not have the right to asylum.
In the Government, they assume that they still need to find accommodation for those 3,000 or 4,000 who remain without a spot and trust that they will be able to enable new spaces. However, the work to prepare them has not yet begun and their final location has not yet been decided.