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Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Wednesday that the EU Migration and Asylum Pact, set to come into force on Friday, creates harmful changes to the EU’s asylum system.
Originally adopted in 2024, the pact introduces wide-ranging reforms including stricter regulations aimed at broadening applicant screening, increasing health and security checks, expediting examination procedures, and providing free counseling services. The pact consists of 10 pieces of binding legislation, which HRW argues will make it easier for governments to rush decisions, limiting safeguards for migrants and extending the time migrants spend in detention.
In a news release, HRW’s senior refugee and migrant rights advisor, Judith Sunderland, stated:
The pact has faced challenges in the past, particularly from right-wing governments that opposed its adoption and later threatened to withdraw from the pact entirely. However, some have argued that this fierce opposition was primarily motivated not by substantive critiques of the reforms, but rather by the desire to appear in control of a state’s national immigration policy.
Governments across the West have been adopting anti-immigration measures demonstrated by recent legislation in Canada and the use of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in the US. Canada recently passed the widely criticized Bill C-12, which migrants rights groups have warned will enable the mass cancellation of immigration applications. In the US, headlines of ICE detentions have been a common occurrence since Trump took office, including the tragic deaths of migrants in custody, and the ICE killings of Renée Good, Alex Pretti, Keith Porter, Ruben Ray Martinez, and Silverio Villegas González.
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Originally adopted in 2024, the pact introduces wide-ranging reforms including stricter regulations aimed at broadening applicant screening, increasing health and security checks, expediting examination procedures, and providing free counseling services. The pact consists of 10 pieces of binding legislation, which HRW argues will make it easier for governments to rush decisions, limiting safeguards for migrants and extending the time migrants spend in detention.
In a news release, HRW’s senior refugee and migrant rights advisor, Judith Sunderland, stated:
HRW has criticized that the new pact will enable European countries to designate non-EU member states as “safe third countries.” This allows an EU member to refuse to examine an asylum claim, instead having the applicant file their claim with a third country to which they may have no familial or cultural ties.
The pact has faced challenges in the past, particularly from right-wing governments that opposed its adoption and later threatened to withdraw from the pact entirely. However, some have argued that this fierce opposition was primarily motivated not by substantive critiques of the reforms, but rather by the desire to appear in control of a state’s national immigration policy.
Governments across the West have been adopting anti-immigration measures demonstrated by recent legislation in Canada and the use of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in the US. Canada recently passed the widely criticized Bill C-12, which migrants rights groups have warned will enable the mass cancellation of immigration applications. In the US, headlines of ICE detentions have been a common occurrence since Trump took office, including the tragic deaths of migrants in custody, and the ICE killings of Renée Good, Alex Pretti, Keith Porter, Ruben Ray Martinez, and Silverio Villegas González.
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