The Biden administration’s newest immigration reforms take a page from a similar policy that has been in place in Greece for nearly a decade.
The Pitiful Excuse Sheriffs Trot Out for Not Arresting White Shooters of Black VictimsAll of these incidents are tragedies of unimaginable proportions, but they are not coincidences. As three human rights lawyers working in the European Union and the United States, we know that they are the direct result of parallel policies implemented at our respective external borders.
Barely one week before the Pylos shipwreck, European leaders took a critical step towards passing long-discussed reforms to the Common European Asylum System. While politicians across Europe hailed the agreement as a breakthrough after years of failed migration policies, if passed, it will expose more people to immigration detention, undercut legal safeguards, and severely curtail the right to asylum.
, which tried to establish a system for returning asylum seekers arriving on the Greek islands to Turkey in exchange for EU funding.Governments like Greece and the United States want you to believe that these policies actually protect migrants by encouraging people to apply for asylum closer to home. That could not be farther from the truth; as we saw last week in Greece, deterrence policies do not work.
These policies fail because protection for asylum seekers in countries of transit is often illusory. Turkey’s protection system is woefully inadequate, and asylum seekers there regularly experience detention, expulsion, torture, and sexual assault. This is not to mention that Turkey has refused to take back any asylum seekers from Greece since March 2020, leaving thousands of people trapped in legal limbo in the meantime.
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