ICE's Alternatives to Detention programme is said to be "more humane" – but for Juliana and her children, it means living under constant pressure. Read the new blog post by @gesanchez.bsky.social and Juliana R. S. ⤵️ blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

I‘m sure @birgitsippel.bsky.social has the entire migration/asylum expert community on her side on this issue, but sadly that doesn‘t seem to mean much any more. @nikolajnielsen.bsky.social @euobserver.com @gesanchez.bsky.social @jesperbjarnesen.bsky.social @theecre.bsky.social

euobserver — EU news that matters@euobserver.com · 7mo ago

A socialist MEP might have to relinquish her role as lead negotiator on a migration dossier following right-wing pressure over proposals to shield humanitarians from criminal prosecution.

Contrary to the name, the EU's safe country of origin list is not primarily based on safety considerations. In fact, the EU’s new asylum legislation on ‘safe country policies’ forms part of a system whose aim is to reject and deport more quickly.

The EU's new asylum 'safe countries' list is a fantasy wonderland

Contrary to the name, the EU's safe country of origin list is not primarily based on safety considerations. In fact, the EU’s new asylum legislation on ‘safe country policies’ forms part of a system whose aim is to reject and deport more quickly.

euobserver.com

Today, in Copenhagen!

ICE claims assaults on its officers are up sharply since June. There's no public evidence that number is true.

White House claims "more than 1,000%" rise in assaults on ICE agents, data says otherwise

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers claim assaults on their officers are up sharply since June. There's no public evidence that number is true.

n.pr

“ABC7 spoke to Pertissue Fisher, a woman who lives in the building. She said ICE agents took everyone in the building, including her, and asked questions later….’They was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other.’” It can’t happen here, you say. But it is happening.

ICE agents raid South Shore apartments; Trump says Chicago could become military training ground

ICE agents raided a South Shore apartment building overnight as the city braces for a possible military deployment.

abc7chicago.com

📣Call for applications: Dialogues on Mobility, Surveillance & Resistance JAN 26–30, 26 Tijuana, Mexico Organized by International Migration Institute & University of Amsterdam's Decolonial Futures Research Priority Area. Apply by SEP 25. Funding available! www.migrationinstitute.org/imi-archive/...

📣Call for applications: Dialogues on Mobility, Surveillance & Resistance JAN 26–30, 26 Tijuana, Mexico Organized by International Migration Institute & University of Amsterdam's Decolonial Futures Research Priority Area. Apply by SEP 25. Funding available! www.migrationinstitute.org/imi-archive/...

🚨 New publication out! Together with @linavosyliute.bsky.social, we examine the EU’s risk of falling into a far-right trap in the negotiations on the Return Regulation. 📄 Published as an open-access Policy Brief by @birmm.bsky.social l — free to read & share! zenodo.org/records/1696...

Full access to the story here: archive.li/2025.09.08-0...

Frontex doesn't like to hear its 'voluntary' interviews of people arriving at Europe's shores being described as covert 'interrogations'. Why? Because it has no legal mandate to interrogate and criminalise migrants. Yet, that is precisely what's happening in Spain. elpais.com/espana/2025-...

Enfrentamiento entre España y Frontex: dudas sobre el uso de los datos que se obtienen de los migrantes

Documentos internos a los que ha tenido acceso EL PAÍS revelan tensiones entre la agencia de la UE y las autoridades españolas por las entrevistas a los recién llegados

elpais.com

On June 11, ICE and police in Baton Rouge, raided 9 massage parlors, detaining 10 Chinese women, their names and whereabouts unreleased. They disappeared into ICE’s sprawling detention system. Not a single migrant rights organization has called for their release. truthout.org/articles/sex...

Sex Workers Are Being Abducted by ICE — and Abandoned by Respectability Politics

Sex workers targeted by ICE need the migrant justice movement’s full solidarity.

truthout.org

Here is how #Frontex unlawfully shared thousands of people’s personal data with #Europol Investigation conducted by Solomon, the French newspaper Le Monde, the Spanish newspaper El País, and the German outlet Netzpolitik. wearesolomon.com/mag/format/i...

Frontex unlawfully shared thousands of people's personal data with Europol

Under the banner of fighting migrant smuggling, Frontex has collected, and unlawfully siphoned to Europol, personal data for years—quietly drawing thousands of migrants, as well as EU citizens aiding ...

wearesolomon.com

Cross-border investigation: @lemonde.fr, @elpais.com, and @netzpolitik.org reveal how, between 2016 and 2023, @frontex.bsky.social illegally transferred the personal data of over 13,000 people to Europol. Published by @wearesolomon.bsky.social 👇 wearesolomon.com/mag/format/i...

Frontex unlawfully shared thousands of people's personal data with Europol

Under the banner of fighting migrant smuggling, Frontex has collected, and unlawfully siphoned to Europol, personal data for years—quietly drawing thousands of migrants, as well as EU citizens aiding ...

wearesolomon.com

Important investigation from @elpais.com on how migrants and activists were treated as criminals by Frontex and Europol. “My whole life was in that police file... They wanted to portray me as promiscuous, a lesbian, using morality to make me look suspicious,” says Helena Maleno, a Spanish activist.

Lola Hierro@lolahierro.bsky.social · last yr.

Con @balkanizator.bsky.social y @stavinoha.bsky.social publico hoy esta investigación en @elpais.com acerca de las prácticas ilícitas de @frontex.bsky.social en la obtención y el manejo de datos personales de migrantes y activistas. elpais.com/internaciona...

Serious questions about evasion of accountability arise, too. FOI documents reveal that senior EU officials had coordinated to misled MEPs about the scale of unlawful Frontex-Europol data transfers during a hearing that followed our earlier investigation: balkaninsight.com/2022/07/07/e...

EU’s Frontex Tripped in Its Plan for ‘Intrusive’ Surveillance of Migrants

Frontex and the European Commission sidelined their own data protection watchdogs in pursuing a much-criticised expansion of “intrusive” data collection from migrants and refugees to feed into Europol...

balkaninsight.com

For @gesanchez.bsky.social - leading expert on smuggling - 'EU agencies often justify harvesting personal data from migrants by claiming it is necessary to combat sophisticated...smuggling networks. This creates the illusion that the data is actually reliable or useful. We know it's neither.'

Our investigation reveals that prominent human rights defenders, who have faced lengthy criminal investigations in Spain and Greece - including @helenamaleno.bsky.social and @aegeanboatreport.bsky.social - have also landed in Frontex & Europol databases. www.lemonde.fr/en/les-decod...

Frontex unlawfully shared thousands of people's personal data with European police

In the name of combating migrant smugglers, the European Union's border surveillance agency spent years collecting information on migrants and civil society activists deemed 'suspect,' before passing ...

lemonde.fr

Between 2016-2023, Frontex unlawfully shared the personal data of more than 13,000 'suspects' with Europol, via supposedly 'voluntary' debriefing interviews with newly arrived migrants that lack basic legal safeguards - branded by experts as 'covert interrogations'. elpais.com/internaciona...

Frontex transfirió durante años ilegalmente a Europol datos de migrantes y activistas

Una investigación de varios medios, entre ellos EL PAÍS, revela que la agencia europea de fronteras facilitó a la entidad policial información indiscriminada de miles de personas a partir de entrevist...

elpais.com

For years, human rights advocates have warned of the criminalisation of migrants & activists at Europe’s borders. With @balkanizator.bsky.social & @lolahierro.bsky.social we shed light on the opaque role of Frontex and Europol in drawing thousands into this dragnet. wearesolomon.com/mag/format/i...

Frontex unlawfully shared thousands of people's personal data with Europol

Under the banner of fighting migrant smuggling, Frontex has collected, and unlawfully siphoned to Europol, personal data for years—quietly drawing thousands of migrants, as well as EU citizens aiding ...

wearesolomon.com

The criminalisation of solidarity is an incredible worrying element of the EU's response to migrant smuggling. We went deep on this issues with @gesanchez.bsky.social , @bramfrouws.bsky.social and @bernd-parusel.bsky.social in this seminar hosted by @sieps.bsky.social sieps.se/en/seminars/...

También publicamos en @lemonde.fr , versión en inglés y francés www.lemonde.fr/article-offe...

Migrants : comment Frontex a alimenté de manière illicite les polices européennes avec les données personnelles de milliers de personnes

Au nom de la lutte contre les passeurs, l’agence européenne de surveillance des frontières a recueilli pendant des années des informations sur des migrants et des militants associatifs jugés « suspect...

lemonde.fr

Con @balkanizator.bsky.social y @stavinoha.bsky.social publico hoy esta investigación en @elpais.com acerca de las prácticas ilícitas de @frontex.bsky.social en la obtención y el manejo de datos personales de migrantes y activistas. elpais.com/internaciona...

Frontex transfirió durante años ilegalmente a Europol datos de migrantes y activistas

Una investigación de varios medios, entre ellos EL PAÍS, revela que la agencia europea de fronteras facilitó a la entidad policial información indiscriminada de miles de personas a partir de entrevist...

elpais.com

Following a complaint by civil society organisations, we opened an inquiry into @ec.europa.eu decision not to carry out an impact assessment on two legislative proposals to counter migrant smuggling. As a first step, we have asked the EC a set of questions. www.ombudsman.europa.eu/news-documen...

Missed our recent @sieps.bsky.social webinar on migrant smuggling and the EU’s counter-smuggling policies, with @gesanchez.bsky.social, @bramfrouws.bsky.social & @svaroschi.bsky.social? There is now a recording you can watch! 👇 sieps.se/en/seminars/...

📢📢📢Join @svaroschi.bsky.social , @bramfrouws.bsky.social, @bernd-parusel.bsky.social for a conversation on the #facilitationproposal and its implications, next 17 June at 15.00 CET.

SIEPS@sieps.bsky.social · last yr.

The European Commission has proposed new legislation to fight the smuggling of migrants. Researcher Gabriella Sanchez has critically examined the proposal in a recent SIEPS analysis. In a webinar on 17 June, she will present her findings alongside expert commentators from policy and academia.

Next deportation stop- Nepal.

✈️👀 I believe this is a likely large jet deportation to Bangladesh. It would follow small jet deportations to there in February and April. Would not be surprised to see another atop on this route.

Looking forward to speaking in this webinar on the EU’s legislation on counter-smuggling of migrants organised by @sieps.bsky.social next 17 June. I will be joined by @gesanchez.bsky.social and @bramfrouws.bsky.social Thanks @bernd-parusel.bsky.social for the invitation! sieps.se/en/seminars/...