This is such an impossible situation. These are children - from pictures, some quite young children rather than just men pretending. But they simply can't take them into Europe, or else many more thousands of children will be deliberately sent across alone and it will be a much worse humanitarian disaster.
Surely they must see that?
The reason for this invasion was the previous choices of the Spanish government: the amnesty of illegal immigrants, and the bizarre ruling about the sea border. And obviously longer term also the political choices in the rest of Europe, including Asylum and free movement.
Hundreds of millions of people want to move into Europe. In our connected world, they all learn every detail that could affect their ability to do so, and act on it. How could anyone imagine otherwise?!? Every single one of those would-be migrants is an intelligent, ingenious human being with the standard overriding human drive to improve their own life in any way they can. Do politicians and NGOs forget that? They seem to infantilize migrants and non-Europeans, and see them as victims rather than as autonomous, personally-motivated humans.
I sometimes imagine the future history lessons, and I fear that 'The invasion of Ceuta' will be cited as a significant event in some absolutely seismic changes to come.