The bulk majority of the near 60,000 migrants- mostly young Moroccans- who crossed into the Spanish-held enclave of Ceuta this week have streamed back home. According to Spanish authorities, within days tens of thousands returned after a mass crossing to Ceuta, telling stories of horror within the Spanish-occupied enclave. Reuters reported that returnees repeatedly cited empty stomachs, closed shops, exhaustion and open hostility from locals. Some young men reported being chased, hit or driven out of neighborhoods, including the predominantly Moroccan-origin district of El Principe. The artificial barrier that separates them from what is geographically and historically Moroccan territory delivers not European prosperity but hunger, rejection, racism, abuse and violence.