Archiving the “strange death of Europe,” as Douglas Murray put it, and the West more broadly, at the hands of the neoliberal technocracy.
Migrant ‘return hubs’ coming to the EU?
Do mine eyes deceive me?
Could it be?
Is Brussels on the populist remigration bandwagon?
The words are right there in clear relief, but somehow they don’t register.
Via DW (emphasis added):
European lawmakers on Thursday gave the green light to controversial proposals to deport rejected asylum seekers to so-called "return hubs" outside the European Union, as pressure grows to tighten up immigration rules.
Parliamentarians in Brussels voted 389 to 206 in favor of the reforms which pave the way for the establishment of migrant centers beyond the bloc's borders to house migrants whose asylum applications are rejected.
Those who refuse to be relocated to the return hubs would face harsh penalties including detention and entry bans*, according to the proposals…
According to the AFP news agency, the proposals are being led by a small group of EU countries including Denmark, Austria, Greece, Germany and the Netherlands.
However, other states such as France and Spain have questioned the strategy's effectiveness while human rights groups have warned of asylum seekers disappearing into "legal black holes."**
"They will be located outside of EU territory, where policymakers cannot guarantee that people's rights will be upheld," said International Rescue Committee's Marta Welander.
Similar schemes have already faced legal problems. The UK's plan to deport undocumented migrants to Rwanda was eventually scrapped after numerous hurdles in the courts. Italy's plan to process migrants in Albania has failed to take-off amid its own legal challenges.
*Entry bans are “harsh” now?
**I suppose, for the so-called “human rights” groups and migrants, “legal black holes” would be preferable to literal black holes, which is where a lot of Europeans would like to send both after what they’d done to Europe.
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The draft law is the product of a pan-EU collaboration of conservative (by European standards) parties across member states — a collaboration that doesn’t come naturally to sovereign-minded nationalist political parties but which is arguably necessary to overthrow the replacement migration regime that has gripped the entire continent and is highly interconnected because migrants inside of the Schengen Area enjoy free travel across checkpoint-free borders.
In other words, once a migrant shows up on a dinghy in Southern Italy, he’s got free rein to mosey on up to Denmark, Poland, or Portugal — wherever he pleases.
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The Green Party is none too pleased with the cooperative effort among “far-right” European parties to solve the migrant problem.
Continuing:
The wording of the draft law was agreed following WhatsApp and in-person negotiations between parties from the center-right European People's Party Group (EPP), including German conservatives from Chancellor Friedrich Merz's Christian Democrats (CDU) and the Bavarian CSU, and far-right parties from the Europe of Sovereign Nations (ESN) grouping such as the Alternative for Germany (AfD).
According to lawmaker Erik Marquardt, who sits in the European Parliament for Germany's Green Party, the draft features 38 formulations which were proposed by the ESN group.
Marquardt warned against "making EU deportation policies dependent on a party [the AfD] which had been categorized by many as extreme-right*** due to its remigration fantasies."
***It’s always interesting that mainstream media or mainstream political discourse can't even mention AfD without the “far-right” smear, yet the Green Party never gets the “far-left extremist” description tagged to it.
