Thousands of migrants in Ceuta wait in limbo while Spain figures out what to do with them

CEUTA, Spain -- For weeks, migrants in the Spanish territory of Ceuta had gathered on a beach away from the city center, sleeping on cardboard sheets, under reed huts and guarding their few possessions in tattered plastic bags.They were gone by Thursday morning after Spanish police escorted them to makeshift shelters. But an hour later, other migrants were combing through the trash they had left behind for anything useful: an abandoned mattress, plastic chairs, sheets, a scrap of tarp.The scene exemplified the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Ceuta, where up to 10,000 migrants, including women and children, have remained in the city weeks after the initial border surge that saw more than 72,000 migrants pour into the small Spanish territory neighboring Morocco. Three weeks later, Spanish authorities were struggling to shelter and attend to those who refused to leave — or even determine exactly how many migrants were still in the city of 84,000.Within days of the initial border rush, in which at least 90 people died, most migrants returned to Morocco, confronted with the difficulty of staying in Ceuta and their slim chances of reaching mainland Europe from the exclave. But thousands r...