Beyond Spotlight: The EU’s Silent Crackdown on Migration

One of the key issues around the world especially at the borders is migration and migrants. Not only the U.S. government but also the European Union (EU) have intensified their efforts to crackdown the migration across the borders of Europe. Their policies and actions look callous similar to the U.S. and it has been receiving stratified criticisms from the human rights activists around the world. 

At the EU borders like Croatia, Greece, and Hungary the migrants/asylum seekers were not given the chance to seek asylum instead they were physically pushed back and thrashed. Such violent actions are levied and there is no legal process to protect the basic human rights of these migrants. It looks overtly that they have breached the international refugee laws and they were also forcibly sent to unsafe places that includes rivers, forests & counterfeit cases are also filed against them. Other non-EU countries have been receiving funds with poor human rights records so that the EU can stop or refrain the migrants from reaching the borders of countries in Europe. And most importantly, many asylum seekers even lost their lives in inhumane detention camps. 

“The European Commission, which guarantees compliance with EU treaties on asylum, condemned these practices a few years ago. We hear much less disapproval from it today; it has lost much of its influence over its members” said Matthieu Tardis, Researcher in Immigration and Co-Director of Synergie Migrations.