Within hours of the first pictures of tens of thousands of migrants swimming the short distance from Morocco to the Spanish north African enclave of Ceuta hitting social media on 30 July, 22 European Union leaders, the Trump administration and Israel had piled on to criticise Madrid.(在首批图片传播数小时内，各方就纷纷批评西班牙。)
7月30日，数万名移民从摩洛哥游过短短一段距离，抵达西班牙位于北非的飞地休达，首批图片在社交媒体上传播后数小时内，22个欧盟领导人、特朗普政府和以色列便纷纷加入批评马德里的行列。
The outbreak of hysteria and recrimination was a case study in 21st-century politics, driven by real-time images in a media echo chamber where populists set the agenda on migration, propagating fear, prejudice and demagogic proposals.(这场歇斯底里是21世纪政治的典型案例。) Above all, the kneejerk reactions(膝跳反射式反应) undermined trust between European allies and dealt a setback to EU efforts to jointly manage migration, counter people-smuggling and resist the weaponisation(武器化) of migrants by non-EU countries.
这场歇斯底里与相互指责的爆发，堪称21世纪政治的一个典型案例：在媒体回音室中，实时图像推波助澜，民粹主义者主导着移民议题的议程，散播恐惧、偏见和蛊惑人心的主张。最重要的是，这些膝跳反射式的反应损害了欧洲盟友间的信任，使欧盟在共同管理移民、打击人口走私和抵御非欧盟国家将移民武器化方面的努力受挫。
That Donald Trump and JD Vance should seize the opportunity to accuse socialist Spanish prime minister Pedro Sánchez of inviting the mass influx by allowing more than 1 million irregular migrants already working in Spain to apply for legal status is hardly surprising, given the US administration’s own relentless drive to detain and expel illegal immigrants.(特朗普等人趁机指责西班牙并不令人意外。)
唐纳德·特朗普和JD·万斯会抓住机会，指责西班牙社会党首相佩德罗·桑切斯允许超过100万已在西班牙工作的非正规移民申请合法身份，从而招致大规模涌入，这并不令人意外，因为美国政府自身正不遗余力地拘留和驱逐非法移民。