U.S. President Donald Trump criticized the migrant breach in Spain's Ceuta region, which borders North Africa, on the 31st (local time), warning that a similar situation would happen in the United States if the Democratic Party comes to power.

Presiding over a Cabinet meeting at Camp David in Maryland, President Trump said, "We watched the disaster unfold in Spain yesterday," adding, "It looked like hundreds of thousands of people were invading a country."

He continued, "If the Republican Party does not win, the exact same thing will happen to us," and "It will be much worse, on a larger scale, and much easier to enter."

"We have the safest border in the world," he repeatedly emphasized, adding, "If we are not in power, we will be invaded on a scale far worse than now."

Prior to this, President Trump also called the migrant breach in Spain "terrible" during an interview with Fox News, according to AFP.

"Remember that scene," President Trump said, adding, "If the wrong people take power in three years, that is what will happen to us."

By presenting the situation in Spain as an example backing the legitimacy of the Trump administration's hardline immigration policies while arguing that the U.S. could face the same fate if Democrats take power, he highlighted the partisan confrontation surrounding immigration.

This is also interpreted as an intention to make immigration a core issue for the November midterm elections and the next presidential election.

On the 30th and 31st, Spain's autonomous city of Ceuta experienced massive border chaos as a crowd of 49,000 people illegally crossed by land and sea from Morocco within a span of 24 hours, resulting in 19 deaths.

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