CEUTA, Spain -- Ceuta, a sliver of land in North Africa, is an anomaly for Spain: a city where Muslims and Christians live in almost equal numbers.But a monthslong migration crisis in the exclave, which Spain's King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia will visit on Tuesday, has exposed religious and ethnic fault lines in a place that bills itself as a beacon of coexistence. Others say the divisions were always there.The crisis was triggered when about 80,000 people poured into the Spanish exclave in late July from neighboring Morocco, driven by rumors online that Spain had opened its border. Most of those who crossed left within days, but up to 15,000 migrants stayed, leaving the city under strain and pitting residents against one another.Many migrants who remained in Ceuta have sheltered in Muslim neighborhoods, sleeping on streets, in doorways and makeshift tent camps and centers run by NGOs and locals. Residents say the chaos never ended for them and have grown frustrated.“What do they want? That we feed all of Ceuta?” asked Mohamed Susi, a resident of El Principe, a Muslim-majority neighborhood, in early October.Hundreds of migrant boys had gathered at a church next to his house before...

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