The EU’s proposal for a “Returns Regulation” sets up a mass deportation machine. Sold as administrative “tidy-up”, the reality is that it paves the way for: deporting migrants to offshore prisons and to countries they have no prior ties, detaining migrants for longer and more arbitrary reasons, codifying racial profiling and expanding intrusive surveillance of migrants

The law caves in to far-right narratives, scapegoating migrants for falling living standards caused by EU and national governments themselves.

Migrant and racialised communities – already over-policed – will be spied on, punished and ever more marginalised.

In our paper, we demand a total rejection of the EU’s deportation plans. Let’s invest in a society of care, not control.