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Ceuta seeks transfer of more than 1,000 child migrants to mainland Spain

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Officials in Spain's Ceuta is seeking the ​transfer ​of hundreds of unaccompanied ​minors from the territory to the mainland. Though the vast majority of 72,000 migrants who arrived on its shores in under a week have since returned ⁠to Morocco , about 1,100 unaccompanied minors who arrived before and during ​the influx – and cannot be summarily deported – remain, according to the local government. Many are living in makeshift accommodation in ⁠warehouses or sleeping on the streets as Ceuta's reception centres struggle to cope. About 75 people died during last week's border rush into one of the EU's two land borders with Africa, which caused alarm across the bloc and revived memories of its 2015-2016 ⁠migration crisis. Spanish law says that adult migrants can apply for asylum. If rejected, they will face expulsion. The bar is normally very high for Moroccans to be granted humanitarian protection. Migrant minors who are unaccompanied by adults, however, are supposed to be granted protect

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