Migrant crisis pushes Italy to restore border checks with Spain, testing Europe's open-border system

This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. ©2026 FOX News Network, LLC. All rights reserved. Quotes displayed in real-time or delayed by at least 15 minutes. Market data provided by Factset. Powered and implemented by FactSet Digital Solutions. Legal Statement. Mutual Fund and ETF data provided by LSEG. Spain deploys military forces to its enclave of Ceuta after a massive surge of over 49,000 migrants overwhelms the border in a single day. Nile Gardiner, former advisor to Margaret Thatcher, joins Brian Kilmeade to warn that the United States faces a similar catastrophic border threat if current migration policies are not urgently reversed. Italy temporarily restored border controls on travelers arriving from Spain Friday as the mass migrant crossing into Ceuta, Spain, escalated from a Spanish emergency into a wider test of Europe’s passport-free travel system. The move followed the entry of approximately 60,000 migrants from Morocco into Ceuta, Spain — a Spanish autonomous city on the North African coast. Spain’s Interior Ministry said 48,300 people had since voluntarily returned to Morocco, leaving fewer than 2,000 people in the territory, while th