Spain says most of the 50,000 migrants who crossed into its territory from Morocco have returned
The sudden arrival of tens of thousands of migrants prompted Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez to rush to the territory, Italy to temporarily restore some border controls on travel from Spain, and France to order extra checks along its border with Spain.
Spanish authorities said they would try to expel those who entered illegally as quickly as possible, despite a recent ruling by Spain’s Supreme Court that migrants arriving by sea cannot be returned to Morocco.
Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni had earlier called for Spain’s membership of the Schengen agreement, which generally permits travel without internal border checks across much of Europe, to be suspended.
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