EU’s deportations plan risks ICE-style enforcement, rights groups warn

Crackdown on undocumented people could lead to home raids, surveillance and racial profiling, 75 organisations say More than 70 rights organisations have called on the EU to reject a proposal aimed at increasing the deportation of undocumented people, warning that it risks turning everyday spaces, public services and community interactions into tools of ICE-style immigration enforcement. Last March, the European Commission laid out its proposal to increase deportations of people with no legal right to stay in the EU, including potentially sending them to offshore centres in non-EU countries. Continue reading...

By Ashifa Kassam European community affairs correspondent