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The events at Ceuta show how Europe’s hard right now set the tone on immigration

The narratives of the right are seeping into mainstream EU policy, and Spain finds itself increasingly isolated in its humanitarian stance on borders Don’t get This Is Europe delivered to your inbox? The exact circumstances in which the heavily securitised border came suddenly to be open are still unclear. Italy and Denmark jointly led the way there, accusing Madrid of failing to secure the EU’s only land border with Africa. Paul Taylor, a senior fellow with the European Policy Centre, says there was a shamelessly cynical interest for some EU leaders to pile on and isolate Madrid. In an EU where policy has been hardening since 2015, he bucks the trend on migration, too. “Spain has been an outlier, welcoming migration and actively working to integrate migrants into the economy and society,” Taylor said. “This is seen as an affront by many conservative politicians but also as a ‘pull factor’ encouraging would-be migrants to try their luck in Europe at a time when official EU policy is to combat irregular migration, crack down on abuses of the asylum system and park asylum seekers offshore in countries outside the bloc.” And this is exactly the bigger political bone Meloni, Frederiksen and others wanted to pick with Spain. In their letter to the EU, ostensibly about the immediate crisis in Ceuta, they targeted Madrid’s recent policy of allowing undocumented people working in mainland Spain to regularise their migration status , even though this was irrelevant for those involved in the Ceuta situation. One theory is that misleading posts circulated on Instagram, TikTok and Facebook following a 29 June Spanish supreme court ruling that clarified that under international law, the state cannot summarily deport migrants who arrive by sea without due process. The Ceuta episode could also lead to the acceleration of ICE (immigration enforcement agency)-style deportations from the EU. The Italian government in particular wants to see offshore migration centres, or “return hubs”, made possible under the EU’s new return regulation. Yet in a Europe devoid of safe and legal routes for asylum seekers, this is a direction that some of the most senior European legal experts have warned could create a “human rights black hole”.

Immigration3h ago

We’ve Filed More Than 50 Legal Claims Over Abuse by Federal Immigration Agents. Here's Why.

In April, ICE (immigration enforcement agency) held one mother, who was five months pregnant, with her husband and four children, including her 11-month-old baby, in a cell with no sunlight and little access to running water for nearly a month. Since President Trump took office again, immigration agents have terrorized communities in workplaces, schools and neighborhoods across the country. In January, ICE shot and killed Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. More than 50 people have also died in ICE detention since the start of President Trump’s mass deportation campaign. The Federal Tort Claims Act allows a person to seek financial compensation from the federal government if a federal employee hurts them while on the job. In one case, armed, masked agents surrounded Willy Wender Aceituno, a U.S. citizen from North Carolina, outside a restaurant and forced to prove his citizenship. After Aceituno showed the officers identification confirming his citizenship, the officers walked away — only to return minutes later to smash his car window and throw him onto broken glass. In another case in Vermont, ICE agents broke into José Estrada Jerez’s home in search of a man who was not there and whom Estrada Jerez did not know. Together, these stories show that no one is safe from the violence of this administration’s lawless agenda — regardless of immigration status or U.S. citizenship. We're also supporting legislation that would bring independent oversight to detention facilities and end family detention.

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Immigration4h ago

Trump's immigration crackdown has detained more than 50 military spouses, parents

Subscribed with another email? Logout and Login with that one. Account subscription benefits alongside Premium Stories, Editorials, Opinions and more. Unlock these with Subscription Published - August 05, 2026 07:07 pm IST - Washington U.S. President Donald Trump. File. | Photo Credit: AP President Donald Trump’s administration has detained dozens of parents and spouses of active-duty U.S. troops as it rolls back immigration protections for military families to pursue its mass deportation agenda, an Associated Press investigation found. More than 50 parents and spouses of active-duty service members have been detained since Trump took office for a second term, and at least six have been deported, the AP found in the first accounting of such detentions, which the government does not track. At least eight immediate family members of U.S. service members remain in federal immigration custody. Parents and spouses of people in the military have generally been shielded from deportation under bipartisan consensus for decades. But the AP found they’re now routinely being detained for months as they try to adjust their legal status through the policies available to service members’ close relatives and even as the military continues to recruit by advertising immigration benefits for enlistees’ families.

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