# Interior Ministry: About 70,000 of 72,000 migrants who entered Ceuta illegally have returned home

https://mins.news/en/item/12833

- TASS, 2026-08-04 12:34 UTC
- World
- Original: https://tass.com/world/2168855

> Spain’s Interior Ministry says about 70,000 of the roughly 72,000 migrants who entered Ceuta illegally have gone back to their home countries. Spain had earlier put the number of illegal migrants at 50,000.

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