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By SAM McNEIL<\/strong><\/p>\n

BRUSSELS (AP) \u2014 The European Union has moved forward with a vast overhaul of its migration policy, aiming to ramp up deportations and ink controversial deals to build detention centers abroad. Rights groups have criticized it, comparing the new regulations to the Trump administration\u2019s aggressive immigration policies.<\/p>\n

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By green-lighting controversial \u201creturn hubs\u201d outside the 27-nation EU, the regulation represents the EU\u2019s hardest line on migration so far and has drawn sharp criticism from opponents who warn it will endanger migrants and undermine human rights from Spain to Romania.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe new regulation will speed up the return process and increase returns of persons who have no legal right to stay in the EU,\u201d said Nicholas Ioannides, deputy migration minister for Cyprus, which holds the rotating presidency of the 27-nation bloc.<\/p>\n

The deal was struck between the EU\u2019s three main institutions \u2014 the European Commission, the European Council and European Parliament \u2014 during a so-called \u201ctrilogue\u201d Monday evening.<\/p>\n

\u201cEurope cannot afford another period of standstill,\u201d said Dutch lawmaker Malik Azmani, who shepherded the regulation through the European Parliament.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is an urgent need for an effective return policy with higher return rates,\u201d he said, adding that only 28% of rejected asylum seekers return to their country of origin, with the majority staying put in the EU. \u201cThis situation is deeply concerning. It undermines public confidence in our common migration policies.\u201d<\/p>\n

Critics compared the regulation to the immigration policies of the Trump administration, which has struck a series of secretive agreements with nations around the world to deport thousands of people to countries that are not their own. The United Kingdom also planned to deport migrants to Rwanda, but the plan was bogged down in legal red tape and was dropped when a new government came to power in July 2024.<\/p>\n

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Several EU governments are already in talks with third countries<\/h4>\n

\u201cAcross the Atlantic, we see the violence and fear created by ICE\u2019s brutal immigration enforcement,\u201d said Silvia Carter, spokesperson for the Brussels-based Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants, referring to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. \u201cEurope should be learning from the harms of that model, not building its own version of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Law enforcement officers across the bloc no longer need warrants from judges to raid private residences or public institutions like hospitals, she said. \u201cThe regulation is going to create a draconian detention and deportation machine.\u201d<\/p>\n

The provisional agreement will now head to the EU lawmakers and governments, where approval will likely be swift.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese new rules will ensure swifter, simpler, and more effective procedures across the European Union for returning non-EU nationals who have no right to stay, in full respect of international law and fundamental rights,\u201d said Henna Virkkunen, EU commissioner for technology.<\/p>\n

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EU member nations will soon be able to set up bilateral deals with countries outside the bloc to build deportation centers. At least five EU nations \u2014 Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, Denmark and Greece \u2014 are already in talks with third countries, mostly in Africa, to host \u201creturn hubs\u201d on the model of Italy\u2019s detention deal with Albania.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are delivering the member states tools in their hands to make those agreements and arrangements with third countries,\u201d Azmani said.<\/p>\n

M\u00e9lissa Camara, a lawmaker from the French Green party, said the deal was \u201ca historic setback\u201d for human rights in the bloc.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe legalization of return hubs outside the European Union, the green light for the detention of minors, home visits inspired by ICE practices: the legal arsenal serving a xenophobic ideology is now complete,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

EU migration policy has steadily shifted to the right<\/h4>\n

The EU has continually tightened migration policies after right-wing parties secured the majority of votes in some countries in the 2024 elections to the European Parliament. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, from the center-right European People\u2019s Party coalition, has said that the new measures will prevent a repeat of the 2015 crisis caused by Syria\u2019s civil war, when about 1 million people arrived to seek asylum.<\/p>\n

Fueled by people fleeing conflict and poverty across Africa and the Middle East, the 2015 refugee crisis and successive years of irregular migration to Europe drove a rightward shift in the bloc\u2019s politics not unlike the anti-immigrant sentiment that buoyed a \u201c red wave \u201d in the 2024 election in the United States.<\/p>\n

After successfully campaigning on tougher migration policies, the winners of that election, the European People\u2019s Party, the largest political group in the EU, began negotiating migration reform with centrist and left parties only to eventually sidestep them by allying instead with the far right, said Carter, the asylum rights activist. \u201cThere was quite an unprecedented shift in the European Parliament.\u201d<\/p>\n

Advocacy groups warned the regulation would cut deep into the protections granted by the EU fundamental charter on human rights and expose people to risks outside the bloc.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis deal will give governments much broader powers to detain and deport people,\u201d said Marta Welander, a spokesperson for the International Rescue Committee, a humanitarian organization. \u201cIt looks set to normalize immigration raids, expand the use of detention in prison-like facilities outside EU territory that are essentially legal black holes, and increase the risk of people being deported to countries where they could face persecution, torture or worse.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Follow AP\u2019s coverage of migration issues at https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/migration<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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