Three of the twelve organizations that on Tuesday, September 29 demanded that the Government withdraw the decree to speed up expulsions from Ceuta are leaving the Society of Jesus: the Jesuit Migrant Service, Entreculturas and Oxfam Intermón, founded in 1956 as the Secretariat of Missions and Propaganda of the Jesuits. The names of those who govern them appear on their own websites. The highest-ranking is that of the Jesuit provincial in Spain, Enric Puiggròs, who chairs the board of trustees of Entreculturas.
The draft royal decree-law, which the Executive planned to take to the Council of Ministers that same Tuesday and which it has left under review with the State Attorney’s Office due to doubts about its constitutional and international fit, sought to speed up the return to Morocco of those who have remained in the city since the mass entry on July 30 and 31. It provided for rejecting asylum applications submitted more than seven days after notification of the return order, set five calendar days to appeal, eliminated the right to remain in Spain during the procedure for those considered a risk to security or public order or who chained applications to halt their expulsion, and applied retroactively to applications submitted since July 30 that remained unresolved. The twelve entities call it an “exception regime” and warn of “fatal consequences.”
Minister Ángel Víctor Torres, heading the single command in Ceuta, counts 7,794 returns; according to El Español, more than ten thousand people remain in the city. The president of the High Court of Justice of Andalusia, Lorenzo del Río, puts the rise in crime in the city since August at 60% compared to the same period in 2025, and the chief prosecutor of Andalusia, Ceuta and Melilla, Ana Tárrago, describes the situation as “unbearable” and calls on the Government for urgent measures. The Parques de Ceuta Neighbors Association is asking for exactly what the NGOs reject: a decree that speeds up expulsions, “always within the legal framework and with all legal guarantees.”
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