Desperate families gathered along the Moroccan border town of Fnideq on Monday searching for missing relatives following last week's unprecedented rush of tens of thousands of migrants into Spain's North African enclave of Ceuta. Spanish authorities confirmed at least 72 people died from drowning and stampedes during the mass border breach, leaving scores of young men unaccounted for as mothers and fathers waited anxiously at the gates. While the majority of migrants returned voluntarily across the border over the weekend, the humanitarian toll has sparked intense political reverberations across Europe and the United States, prompting border security suspensions and heavy international scrutiny over the circumstances surrounding the crossing.
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