By Claudio Grass
November 10, 2026
A new undercover documentary has just been released that strips away the carefully maintained illusions surrounding Europe’s migration crisis. Produced by the investigative outfit Muckraker and titled “Replacing Europe”, the film follows the West African route from the smuggling hubs of Mauritania, through the Canary Islands and mainland Spain, across the French border, and onward toward the Channel to reach the UK. What it actually shows are not scenes of a humanitarian emergency, wartime chaos or active and urgent threats, but it instead documents a carefully managed pipeline, sustained by taxpayer money, NGOs, international organizations and governments that publicly claim to be trying to stop the flow while quietly doing everything they can to ensure it continues.
The film’s most striking admissions come directly from people inside the system. A worker for the UN’s International Organisation for Migration states on camera that Spain deliberately allows the boats to keep arriving because the European Union funding that follows is too lucrative to miss out on. A major Catholic NGO, ACCEM, which received roughly €225 million in 2024, the overwhelming majority from the Spanish state, is shown organizing the transfer of arrivals from the islands to the mainland, housing them and providing monthly allowances. Activists paint literal trails of footsteps on pavements to guide migrants to evade Spanish police and find their way into France. Publicly funded shelters then process them onward with minimal documentation. The overall picture is one of institutional incentives that reward volume rather than control....
This article was originally published at Forum Geopolitica.