The Partido Popular will bring its border bill to the Senate on Wednesday 30 September. It would extend border returns to every irregular entry attempt, including people who reach Spanish territory by swimming. Alicia García says the measure would strengthen border protection and force the Government to answer for the situation in Ceuta.
The bill follows the Supreme Court's ruling 814/2026 of 29 June 2026, which limited border rejection to cases involving physical border barriers. The PP wants to amend the 10th additional provision of the immigration law, applying the same mechanism to other forms of entry.
The proposal is aimed at a specific legal gap.
Information from the PP spokeswoman in the Senate, the PSOE and the Government blocked the same proposal in Congress. Speaking before the PP provincial board meeting in Cádiz, alongside Bruno García, Alicia García said people who arrived during what she called an invasion should be returned. PSOE senators must now show how they will vote.
Ceuta is basic to García's criticism of Pedro Sánchez.
She contrasted Alberto Núñez Feijóo's visit to the city with Manfred Weber and Juan Jesús Vivas against Sánchez's trip to New York. García said Feijóo's presence showed that Ceuta had become a priority for Spain and Europe. She accused the Prime Minister of being thousands of kilometres away and embracing the president of Maduro.
García also criticised the Government's handling of the border crisis. Estimates put the number of people who entered Ceuta during the mass arrival in late July at 70,000 to 80,000. The episode brought major humanitarian and administrative problems.
Two months later, García says children still need escorts on the way to school. She says healthcare faces serious problems, as do security and public order. Her assessment is blunt: the Government has improvised instead of responding to Ceuta's needs.
Thousands are still in the city.
García blamed Morocco for inaction or omission. She also cited a European resolution promoted by the PP that calls for stronger border protection. Spanish authorities have reported between 150 and 200 voluntary returns to Morocco each day.
The dispute extends beyond migration policy.
At the Cádiz meeting, García connected the border issue with security in the province and the fight against drug trafficking. She called Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska incapable and ineffective. She cited increases in kidnappings, up 17%, and sexual assaults, up 4%, during the latest six-month period, while drug trafficking in Spain rose 9%.
The PP says police officers and Civil Guard personnel face traffickers armed with weapons of war. García said the party is promoting legislation to give officers greater capacity to respond to those weapons.
She recalled measures already approved in the Senate during the legislature. They include tougher penalties for drug-trafficking offences and the possibility of trials before higher courts. The measures also classify narcolanchas as attacks on authority and make petaqueo subject to criminal prosecution.
Information from the PP, Juanma Moreno has also taken drug trafficking on the Andalusian coast to the highest level of European politics.
The humanitarian crisis has kept Ceuta in the wider European debate. The European Economic and Social Committee described the episode as a mass influx, linking it to more than 140 deaths and severe humanitarian consequences.
Euronews reported that most of Ceuta's approximately 2,000 unaccompanied minors were not expected to return to Morocco. Thousands of adults also remained in the city. Estimates of the total number still there vary: from roughly 6,000 to 10,000, to about 12,500 or around 13,000.
García wants the OCON-Sur unit restored and Cádiz declared a Zone of Special Singularity. The PP spokeswoman criticised the PSOE for opposing measures backed by her party.
She criticised the Senate's legislative blockages under Francina Armengol, whom she described as Sánchez's 23rd minister. The wider political pressure sits alongside economic disputes covered in an earlier report on Santander's Brazilian offer.
The issue has moved beyond Spain's domestic institutions. European People's Party leader Manfred Weber warned Morocco of "obvious consequences" if the border situation did not stabilise. Ceuta is now part of Europe's discussion about migration control and cooperation with Rabat.
García's announcement is a legislative proposal, not an approved rule. The immediate test is the vote. The PP wants swimming attempts treated under the same return structure as other irregular entries.
PSOE senators will have to define their position on Ceuta and border control. The Senate vote will offer the next clear measure of support for the PP's message on migration and security.
