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The Federalist Papers CBS Mornings covered the Ceuta border collapse and came away genuinely stumped. Sixty thousand people appeared at once, and the panel simply could not imagine why.Setting up the segment, CBS Mornings featured host Vladimir Duthiers relayed Madrid's response:"We just got a statement from the Prime Minister of Spain, who says that they're speeding up repatriation of the migrants who have entered Ceuta, irregularly since yesterday. But — and we should note that a country has the right and the obligation to control its borders — but when you watch thousands of people like you're watching here on your screens, willing to risk their death, willing to risk drowning just for the chance of a better life, it's also worth asking, 'What are they running for?'"Co-host Natalie Morales: "Right."Then Duthiers delivered the thesis:"You have to think to yourself — no one wakes up and says, 'Today I want to risk my life swimming to another country.' People only do that when they feel the alternative is worse."Morales: "Absolutely, in desperation."Co-host Nate Burleson: "Yep, well said."Well said. One small problem.They did wake up and say it. In writing. In public. For weeks.Local broadcaster Ceuta TV documented a public Facebook group called "Hraga Ceuta" with more than 20,000 members on July 27 — three days before the surge. Members traded Google Maps screenshots measuring the distance around the Tarajal breakwater, photos of wetsuits and diving fins, and taxi routes to the frontier. Organizers told followers to leave the backpacks home — swim trunks and stamina were all they'd need. Not exactly the packing list of a people in flight.The trigger wasn't famine. It was a courtroom.Earlier in July, Spain's Supreme Court ruled that migrants intercepted at sea trying to reach Ceuta or Melilla could not be summarily returned under the enclaves' border rejection rules — a legal distinction that quietly rewards swimming over fence-climbing. A Guardia Civil spokesman told Reuters the flow had been a slow trickle since the ruling, until Thursday, when it exploded. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez — no one's idea of a border hawk — called the crossings "a violation of Spain's territorial integrity" and pinned them on trafficker misinformation spreading after the court ruling. So the answer to "What are they running for?" was sitting on Facebook the whole time.With maps.Sources: CBS, CNN, Breitbart, Al Jazerra, The Irish Times