US President Donald Trump and far-right political figures across Europe sought Friday to capitalize on Spain’s migration crisis, casting the recent surge of migrants into Ceuta as evidence of the dangers they say mass migration poses to Western countries.

“I saw Spain yesterday, and I watched the catastrophe that took place,” Trump said during a Cabinet meeting at the presidential retreat at Camp David in Maryland.

“It looks like an invasion of a country by hundreds of thousands of people, and that same thing's going to happen to us if the Republicans don't get elected, except worse, much bigger,” he claimed.

Republicans spotlight immigration ahead of midterm elections

With polling showing Trump’s approval ratings slipping into the low 30% range and Democrats aiming to regain at least partial control of Congress in November’s midterm elections, Republicans have seized on the developments in Spain as an opportunity to refocus attention on immigration, one of their strongest political issues.

Television footage showing migrants breaching barriers to enter Ceuta, the small Spanish enclave on Morocco’s coast, was repeatedly broadcast on Fox News and widely circulated across pro-Trump social media networks.

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