It is not only Trump, the EU also leads anti-migration cross Migration

Currently, the US President Donald Trump led a well-published breakthrough on migration. United States Department for Huminity (DHS) and Immigration and Customs Implementation (ICE) have turned deportations into media spectacles, publishing videos of exported deports and releasing their names to expand fear.

In the past few weeks, Trump Administration has expanded its deportation increase that in the country include even foreign nationals with legal status in the country, including academics. The President committed to deport 11 million people – doubled the number removed under President Joe Biden and even surpassing President Barack Obama two concepts, during which 5.3 million people were deported.

While the world’s attention focuses on Trump’s anti-border spectacle, the European Union calmly performs its own crack. His policies are far less visible, and yet they are just as ruthless.

In the first nine months of 2024. years, the EU countries issued 327,880 orders for expulsion, with 27,740 people forcibly removed between July and September. Deportations intensified, because EU countries began implementing a new migration and asylum Pact, which was made in December 2023. and entered into force in June 2024. years.

According to its provisions, EU members are quick monitoring, spreading detention centers and strengthening cooperation with third countries for deportation. However, not only Member States that will not be part of it.

Balkan countries that must meet certain criteria in order to become part of the EU, through the EU accession process, it is effectively converted into the EU border zone. Unlike EU member states, the Balkan candidate states did not say in shaping this Pact, but they are forced to implement it and adhere to what can be described only colonially blackmail.

Recently, the EU has been clear at the EU Prosecution – Western Balkans declared “, we must strengthen our cooperation and strategic partnerships in migration management, which is a common challenge and responsibility and key priority.”

This is part of a broader EU strategy for externalized migration control and the determination of its borders, but also to be cut off from any responsibility and responsibility for human rights violations and transmit them to third countries.

The key part of this strategy is the creation of “return hubs” near and out of the EU boundaries – where unwanted people can be stored. This model, which the European Commission Prime Minister in Ursuli Von Der Leyen has already requested. People are sent to the Balkans, Turkey and North Africa. Frontex, EU border agency and the International Migration Organization (IOM) play key roles in the implementation of these removals.

In practice, we can see how it looks like in Croatia, EU member states border two Balkan non-members – Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia and Serbia. Croatia played an important role in maintaining the EU border regime by normalizing returns, which has caused numerous deaths and injuries over the years and represented a huge violation of fundamental human rights. Instead of establishing responsibility for this, the EU has awarded Croatia – together with Bulgaria and Romania – allowing them to join the Schengen Agreement, which revokes border control between Member States.

The EU also strengthened readmission agreements – bilateral bids that enable EU countries to send people to their country of origin or country of transit, pushing them on the edge of the EU or outside of its borders, basically for receded migrants. As a result, the Balkans became Dampin for people who wants to kick out.

The Croatian authorities did not publish any report on migration from 2020. years, but in Jan., he said that the Internal Affairs Minister Bozinović prevented 71,000 “illegal entries” in 2024. years. Years. Bosnia, with financial assistance from the EU, removed 893 persons in their countries of origin or countries through interstate agreements, while 96 migrants remained through the Controversial Return Program “, which the Scheduled Jean-Pierre Gauci described as” concealed deportation “.

Currently, the Hedgehog has four custody and a return hub located in Ježevo (near Zagreb), Tovarnik (according to the Croatian-Serbian border) and the Croatian-Bosnian border) and trilj (with the Croatian-Bosnian border).

NGOs and journalists documented widespread violations within these centers, including inhumane living conditions and indefinite custody. It was also a consistent practice of local authorities to send foreign citizens to these centers for several days, and then pulled out and pushed them across the border with Serbia or Bosnia. There were also cases of children and single women in custody in overcrowded male facilities.

Since the beginning of this year, the Croatian police intensify their activities along the eastern border. Their police officers join colleagues from Slovenia and Italy under the newly signed Agreement for Joint Patrols of the Croatian border. At the same time, the border police received several supervisory cameras and police vehicles equipped with supervisory technology.

After the EU ministerial meeting earlier this month, Božinović stated that deportations were no longer “taboo” topic in the EU and that the European Commission was looking at legislative proposals for acceleration.

Croatian boundaries that are not members of the non-EU are already intermittent by unmarked graves of people who died while seeking security and safety. The new pact will intensify only asylum asylum on brutality face Croatia’s borders and non-member countries such as Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Albania, North Macedonia and elsewhere.

The new pact stands out millions of euros for policies and technologies that will directly die in the global policy of dehumanization of people in the move. He also strengthens Frontex, which has long been accused of complicity in illegal return moves and human rights violations, play an even bigger role in border control and deportations. His annual budget for expenditures relating to deportation is 18m euros (19.5 million dollars).

As we write this, the alarm bells are ringing over the EU. In Germany, groups of solidarity are trying to stop the deportations of Palestinians. In Italy, the Government continues to seek the ways of sending unwanted migrants to the centers built for that purpose in Albania. Austria temporarily stopped the family gathering for the asylum applicants. France presented stricter immigration policy and began to deport more people, which led to a series with Algeria due to the large number of deports.

Now more clearly more clearly that the Western countries, which has led the EU and the United States, use migrants as sacrificial victims to justify militarized border control. EU cooperation with Israel in the development of advanced supervision and AI technology is central to this strategy. Same systems used to monitor and control migrants – Dr. Asylum seekers, Palestinians and those in solidarity with them are the first targets, but it will not be the last.

If we do not challenge these policies, these control mechanics will continue to spread, in terminate more and more people. The only way forward is the construction of transnational nets of solidarity that are provided in these injustices and keep them in liability for power supply while exposed to wrong political and economic systems that enable global dehumanization in unfavorable actions. The alternative is to keep quiet and allows the future in which no one is safe.

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