President Donald Trump and his administration are using scenes from the Spanish territory of Ceuta to warn that the tidal wave of illegal immigrants surging across the border could be the United States if Democrats are reelected.Ceuta, which borders Morocco on the northern coast of Africa, has been deluged with approximately 60,000 illegal immigrants in just 24 hours after mobs tore down fences and swam around the border and into the Spanish enclave. Photos and videos show an army’s worth of migrants — mostly young men — participating in the invasion as authorities scramble to deport the foreign nationals.“It’s terrible. Remember that picture. That’s going to be us in three years if the wrong side gets in,” Trump said in an interview Friday. “If the Democrats get in, you will not live a very good life.”
Migrants return to Morocco from the Spanish enclave of Ceuta on Friday, July 31, 2026. (AP Photo/Antonio Sempere)
“It looks like an invasion of a country,” he later added at a Cabinet meeting the same day. “And that same thing is going to happen to us if the Republicans don’t get elected — except worse … If we’re not in office, our country will be invaded at levels that make Spain look small time.”
