Statewatch | EU wants to deport people to countries with which they have no connection
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A German diplomatic cable obtained by Statewatch shows that 11 member states would like to be able to deport people to any country they wish – even if the person has no connection to it. The demands have been accommodated in the most recent version of the proposed law on “safe third countries.” The cable also shows plans to remove the “suspensive effect” of appeals against deportation, while refugee resettlement pledges from member states are lower than ever.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/49429589

A German diplomatic cable obtained by Statewatch shows that 11 member states would like to be able to deport people to any country they wish – even if the person has no connection to it.

While most member states were on board with the Commission’s proposals, 11 member states support deleting the connection criteria altogether: Austria, Bulgaria, Czechia, Cyprus, Finland, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland and Slovakia.

  • vortic@lemmy.worldEnglish
    37·
    1 day ago

    What, they decided that what the US is doing looks fun? This is an awful policy in the US and it would be an awful policy in Europe…

    • Tryenjer@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      17 hours ago

      MAGA has invested heavily in the far right across Europe. In Portugal, they already talk about sending the Ciganos who have been living here for centuries to India or Pakistan.

    • mumblerfish@lemmy.worldEnglish
      19·
      1 day ago

      In Sweden the youtube channel of the far-right party (second largest party in polls) have like 4ish years back said stuff like that they want to deport people to china (for some fucking reason) for writing political messages in washable crayons publically. Since then they have been invited to collaborate with the government, so, yeah.

    • BCBoy911@lemmy.caEnglish
      41·
      20 hours ago

      The EU is America’s servile little lapdog, its no surprise they would take notes from Trump on this. Especially when it comes to persecuting migrants to feed the cultural war, so that they don’t have to talk about how they’re about to do more austerity and health service cuts. The war machine demands more human sacrifices to keep running!

      • palordrolap@fedia.io
        3·
        18 hours ago

        The current government cancelled the previous government’s “send 'em all to Rwanda” plan if that’s what you’re thinking about.

        This is not to say we’re squeaky clean when it comes to the treatment of migrants - we’re still firmly in “could do better” territory - but as far as I know, we haven’t been deliberately sending people just anywhere else. At least not yet*. Deportations are to where they can be unequivocally proved to have come from, and there’s usually a good reason for it.

        * If the Reform lot get in at the next General Election then the policy is almost certain to be MAGA-level insane.