Spain has been in the news lately due to an influx of enrichers via its Ceuta colony in North Africa:
We’re informed that low-skill migrants make any European nation richer both economically and culturally. If that weren’t true, there would be no reason for Europe to accept even one low-skill migrant (acceptance of migrants can’t be based on humanitarian grounds; Sudan has a population of 52 million, for example, and it makes no sense to provide four generations of welfare to a handful of Sudanese in Europe while providing nothing to 52 million Sudanese in Sudan).
After one bounteous day, Spain is now in possession of roughly 60,000 additional migrants (BBC). Can Spain now offer these enrichers to other EU nations for a reasonable processing and transportation fee? At 60,000 migrants per day, even $20,000 per migrant yields a $438 billion/year revenue stream.
Bizarrely, the head of the EU says that enrichers are “unacceptable”! Europe previously wanted to be enriched, which is why some European nations are now 25% migrants or children of migrants, but Europe no longer wants to become culturally and economically richer?
Here’s the same leader saying that €10 billion in tax dollars are going to be spent on data centers because, presumably, private companies are underinvesting in AI?
Could Spain fund a massive collection of data centers by selling migrants to France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Sweden, and other EU nations? Retail electricity rates in Spain are more than 2X what consumers in the efficient U.S. states pay so it doesn’t seem like the most obvious place for AI cogitation.
Ceuta-based lawyer Manuel Jurado said: “Like the rest of the residents here we’re living through this situation with a feeling of complete uncertainty. There are people everywhere and there’s violence now in the city.
“I understand these young migrants have arrived here looking for a better life but there are legal mechanisms that offer that security both for them and for us.
The “looking for a better life” as a justification for immigration into a welfare state is confusing. By this standard, shouldn’t anyone anywhere in the world whose spending power is less than whatever a welfare state, such as the U.S. or any of the headline EU countries, be entitled to move? If it’s “a better life” to be on welfare in Maskachusetts or Spain than to live in Yemen, for example, shouldn’t at least 40 million Yemenis be entitled to migrate to Maskachusetts or Spain?
It has been suggested that Spain could return Ceuta to Morocco, as a result of this incident.
This would make the value of 60,000 Ceuta migrants >= value of Ceuta. Google AI very roughly
estimated value of Ceuta territory to be 30 billion euros. Therefore the value of one migrant >= 500,00 euros, which considerably exceeds the earlier estimate of $20,000. Do not underbid!
> acceptance of migrants can’t be based on humanitarian grounds
Dude, the fallacy of a false dichotomy isn’t addressed by a false trichotomy. Whoever is letting them in could just be faking being a humanitarian to fool the target voting demographic. Everybody has to live somewhere, while they are living.
“I could be arguing in my spare time.” — Monty Python, Argument Clinic
Are those wonderful AI Gigafactories mentioned by the Honorable Ursula von der Leyen the same thing as evil data centers opposed by every right-thinking person in the USA? I am very confused.
What other righteous beliefs need to be completely reversed when traveling between Europe and the USA?
Phil, I am shocked beyond belief at your insulting suggestion that we “pay” for these Peaceful, hard-working Islamic Families that are vacationing in Spain and in who are in need of a New Homeland. Surely as a New Portuguese yourself realize that these are exactly the type of New Portuguese that we welcome in spades. Just because we scammed you out of your investment here in exchange for becoming a New Portuguese doesn’t warrant such insults to your New Homeland!
Off-topic update on erasing memory of Cesar Chavez
https://philip.greenspun.com/blog/2026/03/19/rename-cesar-chavez-schools-and-streets-to-honor-ayatollah-mojtaba-khamenei/
Currently, Plaza De Cesar Chavez in San Jose is being renamed.
Following 5 new names are being considered:
1. Farmworkers Plaza
2. Plaza de Quetzalcoatl
3. Plaza de San Jose
4. Plaza del Pueblo
5. Plaza Park
I am betting my not-so-meager prison rations on either #3 or #4. Quetzalcoatl is impossible to spell, Farmworkers is too Anglo, Plaza Park is both Anglo & dull. Make your bets!
https://www.mercurynews.com/2026/08/01/san-jose-cesar-chavez-plaza-renaming-dolores-huerta/
I propose Plaza de LGBTQIA+++ (pronounced “con triplo plussos”).
This incident was apparently a signal by Morocco that Spain shouldn’t be chatting up that bitch Algeria. Usually there is an implicit (also paid) understanding that they keep the riffraff away.
The whole thing was apparently organized through social media on the ground, so perhaps there will be a penalty to be paid by Meta or whoever? Cha-ching! Just spitballing here.
In 2025, more than 154,000 visaless third world travelers arrived in the EU by sea. I don’t recall Ursula complaining about that though. Perhaps the Moroccans should pool their funds, buy a rubber boat and go for Gibraltar instead?
Tom, you make a great point! Relative to the the Peaceful, Deeply Religious Islamic Families arriving by sea, of course we welcome them. Our own citizens rightfully don’t work much (if at all) because they are paid not to and everything here is Free (duh!). We thrive because we live in a society that embraces Socialism (Karl Marx would be proud!). Without these new EU Citizens, who would do the work that we in the EU rightfully don’t have to do? Besides that, we have learned to embrace the cultural traditions that Islam has brought to enrich our countries, including: child rape, enslaving women (including, of course, dressing them in head-to-toe black rags), beheading the LGBTQIA+++ (as you call them), Jew murders and on and on!