67 migrants die crossing from Morocco to Ceuta in Spain

Tens of thousands of migrants who crossed into Spain's tiny Ceuta

territory returned voluntarily to Morocco Friday, a day after the influx

triggered chaos in the North African city and reignited the immigration

debate in Europe and beyond.

At least 67 migrants died on the journey as Ceuta's president

puts the number of migrants arriving in the territory at 60,000

equivalent to 70% of the territory's population.

Spain's military out patrolling the streets of Ceuta overnight

after a massive influx of migrants from Morocco poured into

the tiny Spanish territory Thursday.

By Saturday morning several groups of Moroccans were

having second thoughts and leaving.

Moroccan security forces gathered at the border with Ceuta.

Some were seen escorting young people who had been

stopped entering the Spanish territory.

In Rabat, Morocco, young people share mixed feelings

on migration to Europe.

Malak, a 19-year-old graduate student says

"If I ever decide to go, I would rather travel with my documents

and through legal channels. I am not very keen on the idea of

emigrating because my family is here, and I want to stay close

to them."

Professor and sociologist Mohssine Benzakour says

"Those who left and migrated are not only unemployed people.

Many of them come from the middle class as well.

Another analyst says this is a tricky moment for Spain's Prime

Minister Pedro Sanchez.

Nicolas Lawley, special advisor to director & CE Chatham House said

This is a particularly tricky moment for Pedro Sanchez,

because he has made such an effort to sort of make the other case for migration,

that it can be economically positive and sought to regularise approximately

half a million migrants.

Now, he has received over a million applications to be regularised in Spain

which has caused, as you can imagine, quite a debate on migration,

and I think this is being really spread by the right in Spain,

who would rather have, and not just Spain but across Europe and across the world,

we've seen Elon Musk joining in this debate,

who would rather Sanchez has to fight the next general election on migration

rather than the economy, which has gone rather well.