The Euro Union has taken a lesson from President Trump’s enforcement of immigration laws and decided it would be a good idea to adopt his methods.
European Union (EU) lawmakers recently approved measures enabling member states to deport rejected asylum-seekers to offshore “return hubs,” the Associated Press reported on Sunday.
The move aligns closely with tactics praised by right-wing parties and echoing enforcement approaches associated with the Trump’s administration’s mass deportation efforts of illegal immigrants.
……Countries including Russia, China, Venezuela, and Afghanistan are just some of those the U.S. has been unable to repatriate immigrants to, meaning they are often stuck in ICE detention.
Over the past 14 months, the Trump administration has struck multiple deals with countries in Eastern Europe, Africa, and Latin America, at times in exchange for other benefits. Some agreements have seen legal challenges over conditions that the roughly 300 immigrants deported under the program have faced.
The union’s plan marked a significant shift in Europe’s migration enforcement, enabling deportations to facilities outside the EU and expanding detention and entry-ban powers at a time when only about one in five people ordered to leave are actually returned.
Members of the European Parliament (MEP) voted 389-206, with 32 abstentions, to ease the creation of detention facilities outside EU territory and increase penalties and entry bans for migrants who refuse to leave, while authorizing returns to third countries under bilateral deals, according to AP.
Any EU nation can now negotiate on its own or in small coalitions to deport migrants to facilities yet to be built outside the 27-nation bloc.
The vote came as part of the EU’s broader Pact on Migration and Asylum, with new rules set to take effect June 12, and as far-right and conservative parties pushed for higher return rates and tougher border enforcement.
The European Parliament’s version backed detention for up to 24 months for people awaiting return and endorsed tougher, potentially indefinite entry bans in some cases, while positioning the regulation as a cornerstone of efforts to increase returns, according to Agence France-Presse.
A “return hub” is an offshore detention and processing facility located outside EU territory to which migrants whose asylum claims were rejected can be transferred under bilateral agreements, pending removal to their country of origin or another accepting state.
Greece, Germany, the Netherlands, Austria, and Denmark entered talks with mainly African governments to host offshore sites, reflecting momentum among a group of member states pursuing externalized returns, AP reported.
Italy advanced a separate but related model by operating migrant detention centers in Albania for rejected asylum-seekers under Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s approach, which EU officials and analysts cited as an example of external processing and returns, according to AP.
Far-right and some conservative parties in Europe have praised President Donald Trump’s deportation policies. The AP reported Belgium’s far-right Vlaams Belang party as well as Germany’s far-right AfD party said earlier this year they want to form a police group focused on finding and deporting migrants similar to U.S. efforts.
They’re not “immigrants”. They’re invaders who were allowed to stay. The people are fed up with foreign nationals who murder, rape, and commit acts of terrorism with the complicity of their governments.
The UK should follow suit. Their “immigration” disaster is off the charts.
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