Deportation Union - overview (website)

1. Cutting rights to increase removals

2. Databases for deportations

3. New powers for Frontex

• New and expanded biometric databases are key to the EU’s deportation plans
• The aim is for easily-accessible data on all foreign nationals
• These changes undermine key data protection principles
• They increase the risk of racial profiling
• They will require massive investment in coercive infrastructure and personnel

• Negotiations are ongoing on proposed changes to EU law governing deportations
• The aim is to minimise peoples’ rights and increase state powers
• There is no evidence the changes would be effective
• But they would be more harmful to individuals
• In particular, the increased use of detention would breach fundamental rights

• The EU border agency has helped deport over 50,000 people since 2007, including to Afghanistan and Iraq
• In the coming years, the plan is for it to aid in the removal of 50,000 people annually
• Recent legal reforms give more powers to the agency
• Abuse on Frontex-coordinated deportations is known to have gone unpunished
• Safeguards and oversight mechanisms are weak and lack independence

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