The EU turns slightly to the right on immigration
The pressure has been on, and the EU has made a concession of sorts:
The European Parliament on Wednesday approved more stringent migration measures that grant member states wider-ranging powers to deport failed asylum-seekers.
EU lawmakers approved the changes to EU policy with 418 in favor to 218 against and 30 abstentions.
That’s not a close vote.
More:
Under the new system member states will be allowed to establish so-called “return hubs” in non-EU countries.
A non-EU national found to be staying illegally within a member state will be obliged to leave the EU country “immediately or within a given time,” the European Parliament said.
A migrant or asylum seeker in such a situation could find themselves in “return hubs” in other countries that have an agreement with EU member states.
These agreements “may only be concluded with third countries that uphold human rights, international law and the principle of non-refoulement.”
Under the legislation, the person may be detained, should they fail to cooperate with local authorities or if they’re found to pose a security risk.
Seems like it will only deal with a small percentage of illegal aliens, the ones who get into the most trouble with authorities. And where will they go? Where are these countries that protect human rights and yet want to accept the deportees?
[Cyprus’ Migration Minister] Ioannides said the “general idea” is to set up return hubs “maybe in Africa or Asia” but “not close to European borders.”
I’m still trying to figure out where these hubs might be. And so are they:
Spain’s Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska, who is opposed to the returns deal, said at last week’s meeting that he was worried return hubs would be built “without safeguards” for people’s rights, “to the point that a family with children could be returned to countries with which they have no ties.”
Luxembourg’s Minister of Home Affairs Léon Gloden said his country would object to sending women and children to return hubs, despite backing the centers being set up.
Maybe the idea is to motivate illegal aliens to self-deport back to their host countries, or not to come to EU countries in the first place, if there’s no guarantee of being allowed to stay.
NOTE: Makes me think a bit of the way Australia was settled (at least in part), as a way of clearing out Britain’s overcrowded prisons.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkxAlKdClyE
Watch the video till the end. The retort was 90% women. One was very very sad. A reckoning is coming. The “politics of emotion” has been 100% responsible for this mess.
Unwillin’ Barkis:
Gad Saad has just written a book on that sort of thing. He calls it “suicidal empathy.” He’s got many talks about it on YouTube.
Here’s the book at Amazon. From the listing:
The feckless Europeans will make a botch of it. No substantive changes. Very few will be deported.
Willing to bet dollars to doughnuts on that.
IrishOtter49: Willing to bet dollars to doughnuts on that.
Make ’em Krispy Kreme doughnuts, and I’ll bet that way too.
Original Glazed $1.59 – $1.99 each
Original Glazed Kreme Filled $1.99 – $2.29 each
(Source: Krispy Kreme Menu Prices 2026)
IrishOtter, your point is well taken.
I’ve just had too much serious for one day. 😉
If enough three year old children get thrown into crocodile enclosures to be devoured, could be Europe will eventually get a clue.
Marxism in a nutshell
Worried about people’s rights who abuse other people’s rights
Great plan, won’t happen to very many, my guess is thousands not millions.
This looks too much like “controlled opposition.” It seems the measure is designed to *look* like a solution, when it is actually just window dressing for more of what got us here.
“Spain’s Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska, who is opposed to the returns deal, said at last week’s meeting that he was worried return hubs would be built “without safeguards” for people’s rights, “to the point that a family with children could be returned to countries with which they have no ties.””
Funny. These families had not problems with moving to a European country “with which they ha[d] no ties.” The “migrants” aren’t worried about “ties,” they’re worried about the ability to grift off a host country. Maybe they should just return home and build their own country.
I wonder if the USA could join forces with the EU in building and maintaining these “return hubs”? Seems like a natural way to achieve greater efficiency. Or at the very least, preventing the Europeans from shipping at us for our supposed inhumane practices.
It is possible a nationalist government will be in place in France in a year’s time. We’ll see what they can accomplish.
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Building agencies which can implement astringent immigration controls and deport people with dispatch will take more time than setting legislative standards. One thing they should do (and will have to build up their capacity to do) is to build WWii style troop ships. Syria says they won’t take back their people, you load them on troop ships escorted by warships, stop and put them on rowboats when you get 600 yards from the coast. Another is to build detention centers to hold applicants for refugee status. Ideally such people are not allowed at large in the country and have no more than one appeal. You need to build dedicated detention centers for illegal aliens as well. Anyone reasonably suspected of being an illegal alien should be jailed immediately. You can indemnify them if it be a case of mistaken identity.
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A legislative program might include:
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1. Abrogation of the Schengen agreements
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2. Limiting annual issuance of settler’s visas to 40,000 and issuing them on a qualified first-come-first-served basis.
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3. Requiring that all persons over the age of 14 must pass a written and oral examination in the French language before they can be admitted.
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4. Limiting temporary residency permits to accredited employees of foreign governments, authentic refugees, students, teachers, and the dependents of those in these categories.
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5. Setting a target for the temporary resident population at 300,000, and placing a moratorium on the issuance of such permits to students, teachers, and their dependents when the stock of temporary residents is in excess of the target.
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6. Summarily denying refugee status to anyone who shows up anywhere but at a designated point of entry and denying their dependents as well.
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7. Summarily denying refugee status to those who skipped over other (safe) countries before arriving in France. Refugees are properly housed in camps proximate to their country of origin with a view to their eventual repatriation. Resettlement should be a last resort and should be in culturally similar countries. NB. just about every communal segment in Afghanistan has a sister population in a neighboring country. Afghans should be resettled in those countries, not in Europe.
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8. Making it the law that the civil status of those born in France (and their dependents) is one derived from that of their mother. If they are of legitimate birth, it can be derived from that of their father if he has a preferred status. The child of a citizen, temporary resident, sojourners, or illegal alien has the parental status. The child of a settler can be called a ‘denizen’, i.e. a settler with a durable right of domicile. The child of a denizen can receive citizenshiop.
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9. Making it the law that to be eligible for naturalization, there have to have been periods in your life where all of the following were true simultaneously and these periods have to amount to a majority of your natural life: (a) you were a palpable resident of France or enrolled in the French armed services; (b) you were not incarcerated, on probation, or on parole; (c) you were not under a civil commitment order or adult guardianship; (d) you were not living in public housing (garrison housing aside).
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10. Retrospective reversal of naturalizations which meet certain criteria.
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11. Making it the law that French citizenship is by default exclusive and requiring all people who have been naturalized or are due to be sworn in as citizens to sign sworn declarations renouncing their citizenship in every other country to which they have a cognizable claim to it. Exceptions might be made for a selection of those from Canada, Belgium, and Switzerland.
A little balance seems, for some reason, to be beyond the abilities of VPOTUS.
Might one wonder just why that is…?
“BARACK TO THE FUTURE”—
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2026/06/barack-to-the-future.php
Something (reckoning) is coming, what for sure no one knows.