The America We Could Be Sleepwalking Into
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The America We Could Be Sleepwalking Into

The current migrant crisis plaguing Spain could come to America much sooner than you think.

Ben Shapiro
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A wave of migrant workers, tens of thousands strong, crossing the border, flooding the country, a Muslim invasion, taking over major cities, serving as the foundation for anti-Western sentiment and social collapse, a Left-wing government welcoming all of it in the name of both virtue signaling and political gain.

We’re not talking about America — yet.

We’re talking about Spain. But the current migrant crisis plaguing Spain could come to America much sooner than you think. The seeds have already been planted.

Remember when President Joe Biden opened our southern border and let in millions of illegal immigrants? Do you remember the time that radical Muslims began flexing political power in big cities in America, ranging from Dearborn, Michigan to New York City?

That’s just the beginning.

How do we know? Because we are watching the Avengers-style crossover of these two phenomena.

Mass migration and Muslim invasion are playing out in Spain right now. That will come to America, too, if the Left has its way.

On Thursday, unbelievable video started pouring out of a place called Ceuta, an autonomous city that’s part of Spain and physically located across the Strait of Gibraltar in Africa, bordering Morocco.

According to the Associated Press, at least 60,000 people crossed into Ceuta. The total permanent population of Ceuta is 84,000 people, so the population essentially doubled overnight.

They were mostly all young males.

The police looked on as swimmers climbed the barriers and attempted to enter the country.

Why exactly is all of this happening? Two reasons. One comes courtesy of the horrifyingly corrupt and terrible Spanish prime minister, a man named Pedro Sanchez. You might remember him from lots of tape of him ripping President Trump, or siding with Iran or Venezuela or Palestinians.

The other comes courtesy of the Supreme Court of the country.

First, the president. Back in April, according to the BBC, “Spain’s government approved plans to give legal status to half a million undocumented migrants, allowing them to be integrated formally into the workforce.”

A bunch of people legally moved to Spain, and the Spanish government decided to legalize them and grant them mass amnesty.

The BBC continued:

Prime Minister Sanchez describes his government’s decision as both an “act of justice” and a necessity for Spain. … The government’s plan will offer a one-year renewable residence permit to undocumented migrants. In order to be eligible, applicants had to prove they’ve already spent five months living in Spain and have a clean criminal record. They have between 16 April and the end of June to apply.

Sanchez said migrants helped “build the rich, open and diverse Spain that we are and to which we aspire. The Prime Minister said these migrants are needed to sustain the economy and public services in a country whose population is aging.

Spain has a massive demographic crisis. The replacement rate in Spain is 1.12.

The BBC added, “He also said it was the right course of action for a nation which in the past had seen many of its own nationals emigrate in search of better opportunities.

The idea is that Western civilization is fundamentally flawed, and somehow Spain owes it to millions of people from Africa to get in.

More than 1 million people applied for mass amnesty in June.

What did Pedro Sanchez say? He said, “That’s great; we want more.”

In February 2026, Sanchez wrote an opinion piece in the New York Times titled, “I’m the Prime Minister of Spain. This Is Why the West Needs Migrants.” He wrote:

MAGA-style leaders may say that our country can’t handle taking in so many migrants — that this is a suicidal move, the desperate act of a collapsing country. But don’t let them fool you. Spain is booming.

It is not.

We, as Western nations, must choose between becoming closed and impoverished societies or open and prosperous ones. Growth or retreat: Those are the two options before us. And by growth, I’m not talking only about material gain, but also our spiritual development.

Spiritual development? You have to bring in vast swathes of Muslim migrants for the spiritual development of your Left-wing country?

Sanchez continued, “Governments can buy into the zero-sum thinking of the far-Right and retreat into isolation, scarcity, selfishness, and decline. Or they can harness the very same forces that, not without difficulties, have allowed our societies to thrive for centuries.

He wasn’t even arguing in favor of an increasingly capitalist libertarian economy. He is a full-scale Left-wing socialist.

In January 2026, he said, “Some say we’ve gone too far that we’re going against the current. But I would like to ask you. When did recognizing rights become something radical? When did empathy become something exceptional? Spain is above all, a welcoming country and this is the path we choose: dignity, community, and justice.”

So many nice words for legalizing mass migration, importing literally millions of radical Muslims onto your soil — and also trying to cover up your own corruption. That’s because one reason Sanchez is doing this is that his administration has been plagued by massive corruption.

Sanchez is not particularly popular right now. He’s doing very poorly in the polls. He’s relying on knee-jerk anti-Westernism and radical anti-Americanism.

He openly allied with Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela; during the Iran war, he has pretty much openly allied with Tehran. He’s openly allied with the Palestinian Authority and Hamas.

And then the Supreme Court of Spain delivered an asinine decision in July, essentially ruling that if you arrived across the border, you could do what the United States would basically do if you arrived at the southern border right now: immediately be turned back.

But — according to the Spanish Supreme Court, that did not apply to anyone who arrives by sea. So if you were in a boat or if you swam, you could not be thrown back into Morocco.

But of course, these are nice Westernized people who just want to be part of Western civilization.

Or alternatively, many of them are radicalized Muslims, and some of them were yelling “Allahu Akbar” as they came in.

How did the Spanish government respond to all of this? According to Reuters, the government said that it would send 200 specialized police officers and 60 troops to reinforce Ceuta’s regular forces. There are roughly 1500 active police officers operating in Ceuta right now. That would bring the total to 1700 police officers and 60 troops to handle 60,000 migrants.

This is not just a mass-migration threat; it is a mass-migration threat of a particular ideology. According to many Muslims, including all radical Muslims, Spain remains part of Dar al-Islam, under which rubric a land once conquered by Muslims is theirs forever.

In the last three decades, Spain’s Muslim population has grown from roughly 250,000 in the early 1990s to 2.5 million people. One million Muslims now hold Spanish citizenship. Most of them come from Morocco, but there are also communities coming from Pakistan, Senegal, Algeria, and Bangladesh, and they are heavily located in certain regions like Catalonia, Andalusia, Madrid, and the Valencian Community.

The reproduction rate among Muslims is about three times that among Spanish natives. About 11% of all babies born in Spain are to a Muslim parent.

What you have seen is a gigantic expansion of Muslim presence on Spanish soil.

Spain looks like what our future could be.

This is why it is quite important that President Trump governs well and Republicans run a good candidate in 2028 because if they don’t, we could easily see a Democratic president with a Democratic Congress and a Democratic Senate poised to shove America far to the Left, perhaps permanently.

And if that happens, it’s all over.

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