Mediterranea on EU deportations: ‘We must do as they did in Minneapolis’

European legal, civil, and political culture was born out of the rejection of deportation. Then mass pushbacks were introduced, nullifying the Geneva Convention; now, outright deportation.

“The European Union is implementing ‘remigration’,” Luca Casarini, one of the founders of Mediterranea Saving Humans, tells il manifesto from the sidelines of a meeting. “We must start getting organized to save people from deportation, we must do as they did in Minneapolis,” he says following the European Parliament’s final green light to the new asylum rules.

Accelerated procedures, agreements with third countries, a common European list [of “safe countries”]. The agreement also includes the outsourcing of asylum requests. Is Europe following Trump’s lead?

This measure is not an extraordinary development; it is part of a process that has its roots much further back, starting with the very serious error of the so-called progressive parties that deluded themselves into thinking they could do exactly what the........

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