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President Donald Trump has a blunt warning for American voters heading into the midterms: look at what just happened in Spain, because it is a preview of what Democrats will bring back to the United States. Speaking during a Cabinet meeting on Friday, Trump pointed directly to the chaos unfolding in Spain’s North African enclave of Ceuta, where tens of thousands of migrants stormed the border from Morocco in a matter of days, as a warning of what awaits America if Republicans lose control of Congress.

“You know, I saw Spain yesterday, and I watched the catastrophe that took place,” Trump told reporters. “It looks like an invasion of a country, hundreds of thousands of people.” He did not mince words about what he believes would happen here under different political leadership, telling those in the room that “that same thing is going to happen to us if the Republicans don’t get elected, except worse.”

The scale of what happened in Ceuta is difficult to overstate. Spanish authorities said roughly fifty to sixty thousand people crossed into the tiny enclave by land and sea beginning Thursday, in what officials described as an unprecedented surge at one of the European Union’s only land borders with Africa. The rush left dozens dead, with reported casualties ranging as high as the seventies and even the eighties depending on the source, and prompted twenty-two EU governments to demand an emergency response.

Trump’s comments were not limited to the Cabinet meeting. In a separate interview, he told a Fox News reporter that Democrats winning back power would make life dramatically worse for ordinary Americans. “It’s terrible,” he said, according to the reporter who spoke with him that morning. “Remember that picture. That’s going to be us in three years if the wrong side gets in.” He added flatly, “If the Democrats get in, you will not live a very good life.”

The president went further on his Truth Social platform, drawing a direct line between the images out of Ceuta and his own account of what happened at the U.S. border during the Biden administration. “What’s happening with Spain, with tens of thousands of Illegal Immigrants invading it, happened in the United States during the Sleepy Joe Biden Administration, and it will happen again, only worse, if the Democrats ever again gain power,” he wrote, urging Americans to vote Republican in the midterms.

By Friday, Trump escalated his language even further, telling reporters that without Republican control, “our country will be invaded at levels that made Spain look small time.” He argued that despite the border wall construction completed during his time in office, a return to Democratic policies would make illegal entry “much bigger, much easier to get into.” He described migrants as “coming in by the tens of thousands… just invading the country,” attributing the risk to what he called “weak law, bad management, but very liberal law.”

It is worth remembering the scale of what Trump is comparing America to. The Ceuta crisis saw an estimated fifty thousand people cross in roughly twenty-four hours alone, according to Spain’s Interior Ministry, with more than forty eight thousand of them voluntarily returning to Morocco within forty-eight hours as Spanish authorities restored order. Footage from the enclave showed Spanish soldiers and police patrolling a nearly empty, fog-covered beach in the aftermath, a scene that looked more like the site of a natural disaster than a normal immigration event.

Spanish Interior Minister Fernando Grande Marlaska placed blame for the crisis squarely on people smuggling networks, which he said exploited vulnerable migrants and spread misleading interpretations of a recent Spanish Supreme Court ruling on how migrants intercepted at sea can be handled. He insisted Spain had largely restored order within twenty-four hours but warned the crisis was “not yet formally over,” with reinforced police and military deployments remaining in place as a precaution.

The political reaction across Europe has been swift and largely aligned with the concerns Trump has raised for years. Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni responded to the images from Ceuta by declaring that “uncontrolled illegal immigration poses a concrete threat to the security of Europe’s border.” French Interior Minister Laurent Nunez similarly ordered authorities to immediately step up checks at the Spanish border, underscoring how quickly the crisis rippled beyond Spain’s own frontier.

Trump has made this comparison before in different forms, but the timing here is notable. He is using a live, ongoing humanitarian and security crisis in Europe, not a hypothetical, to argue that the United States sits one election away from a similar collapse of its own southern border. For a president who built much of his political identity on immigration enforcement, the Ceuta images offered a ready-made illustration of the stakes he has been describing since his first campaign.

His broader argument rests on a comparison between his administration’s approach and that of his predecessor. Trump and his allies have consistently argued that lax enforcement under Joe Biden allowed millions of illegal crossings at the southern border, overwhelming border patrol resources and straining local communities from Texas to New York City. Since returning to office in January 2025, Trump has pursued what his administration calls the largest deportation and enforcement operation in American history, a campaign that has drawn a strong support among hardworking Americans.