EU passes law allowing offshore deportation centres
Subscribed with another email? The Regulation essentially approves the deportation of immigrants who have no right to enter or stay in the EU to third-party countries. Individual member states can now form bilateral agreements with non-EU countries and set up deportation centres there. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE (immigration enforcement agency)) officials in recent times. The Return Regulation was mainly supported by the bloc’s right-wing and centrist groups. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen stated the Regulation was “fair and firm”, and that it would deliver “more secure external borders, solidarity between member states and more efficient procedures for asylum and return”. Some significant reforms within the Pact include a mandatory screening process at the time of reaching the border, the formation of a full-fledged EU asylum and migration database etc. The number of first-time asylum applicants has been decreasing year after year. If the claim was approved, they could attain refugee status in Rwanda. Meloni’s government has already set up ‘repatriation centres’ for asylum seekers, intercepted at sea, in Albania.
Excerpt: Biden’s Border Crisis Will Return If We Don’t Close These Loopholes Now
H aitian citizens tried to get the Supreme Court to uphold their Temporary Protected Status (TPS (Temporary Protected Status)) designation Tuesday, asking the high court to toss the Trump administration’s appeal of lower court rulings blocking its efforts to end TPS for the Caribbean country. The legal battle highlights an ongoing struggle over TPS and the backdoor mass immigration machine more broadly. People imagine that legal and illegal immigration are separate, distinct things. But there’s a grey area between them that presidents for years have exploited to create a shadow immigration system to circumvent the limits imposed by Congress. This abuse has been going on for years, but the Biden administration dialed it up to 11. The Trump administration is working to undo the damage caused by its predecessors, but unless Congress changes the law, the next Democrat president will just restart the shadow system. The two pillars of this parallel, extra-legal immigration system are immigration parole and Temporary Protected Status, or TPS. Past presidents have used parole to let in foreigners in any number, for any reason, for any length of time they felt like. And TPS has been abused to let illegal aliens already here stay indefinitely. Congress enacted both these programs, but presidents have ignored the tight requirements Congress intended. [Read the whole thing at The Federalist.]