[Source](https://thenationalpulse.com/2026/08/04/spanish-official-fired-for-leaking-migrant-invasion-data/) > A staff member of Spain’s Department of National Security (DSN), roughly equivalent to the United States’ National Security Council, was fired after publishing an alert detailing the surge of illegal migrants into Ceuta, a Spanish city in North Africa, from Morocco. The alert was issued on Thursday and deleted soon after. The alert warned Spaniards that roughly 49,000 illegal migrants from Morocco had rushed the Spanish border, a figure that later rose to around 70,000. The alert described the incident as “the worst migrant crisis registered in the city since May 2021.” The unnamed former staffer, who had worked at the DSN since 2018, was fired over the phone. The information about the illegal migrant surge at Ceuta was allegedly “not meant to be public, as it was intended solely for internal use,” according to Spanish media. “Despite the government’s lack of foresight, the only person dismissed was the civil servant. And this, even though the data she released was accurate,” stated online outlet El Español. The dismissal process was reportedly unusually abrupt, bypassing typical protocols for reassigning officials to their original departments. “According to the same sources, that department had not been formally notified of her dismissal,” wrote ABC, a Spanish daily newspaper.