Many Countries Deport Criminal Immigrants

  Aisha Dodwell

05. Dec 2017 General | Opinion

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Projects such as the EU’s Operation Sophia, a Naval mission patrolling the seas near Libya in order to stop, search and destroy smugglers’ boats, has only made people’s journeys more dangerous as it led to cheaper and more dangerous rubber dinghies being used.

And then there are Europe’s violent outsourced borders in places such as Libya, where despite UN reports of widespread abuse and violence, Europe continues to fund migrant detention camps.

Even if people do reach Europe, they will likely be faced by further violence or incarceration under Europe’s system of mass detention and deportation. In the United Kingdom, over 30,000 people are locked up in immigration detention centers each year. Australia notoriously sends people seeking asylum to outsourced detention camps in Papua New Guinea. While in the USA, which operates the largest immigration detention system, some 350,000 people passed through immigration detention last year. Europe’s deadly deportation schemes such as the Joint Way Forward deal with Afghanistan means people are returned to countries where they risk persecution, torture and even death.