Police Begin Clearing Migrant Camp on Ceuta Beach
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The Police started to clear a migrant camp in Ceuta.
Ceuta is a Spanish city in North Africa.
The camp was on El Trampolín beach.
Many migrants lived there for more than two months.
They stayed there without permission.
The National Police went to the beach to move the people.
The police call this a settlement.
The settlement was illegal.
Police say the people there were occupying the land.
This happened in October 2026.
The police work is called an eviction.
An eviction means police remove people from a place.
The migrants came from other countries.
They wanted to stay in Spain.
The beach camp lasted a long time before police acted.
Vocabulary15 words
- Police
- people who keep order and stop crime
- National Police
- the main police force of a country
- settlement
- a place where people live, often made quickly
- illegal
- against the law
- occupying
- staying in a place without permission
- eviction
- making people leave a place
- migrant
- a person who moves to another country
- camp
- a simple place where people stay for a time
- beach
- land next to the sea
- Ceuta
- a Spanish city in North Africa
- permission
- when someone says you can do something
- months
- periods of about thirty days
- remove
- to take away
- stay
- to continue being in a place
- countries
- nations, like Spain or Morocco
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1. El Trampolín beach in Ceuta 2. The National Police 3. More than two months
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The _____ started to clear a migrant camp in Ceuta.
Ceuta is a Spanish city in North _____.
The camp was on El Trampolín _____.
Many migrants lived there for more than two _____.
They stayed there without _____.
The National Police went to the beach to move the _____.
The settlement was _____.
Police say the people there were _____ the land.
The police work is called an _____.
An eviction means police remove people from a _____.
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