Browsing: deportations

Before the xenophobic hate group March and March’s fascist deadline for international migrants to leave South Africa, I asked Aseza Gungubele, a commissioner at the South African Human Rights Commission, about the legality of mass deportations. The unambiguous answer was that mass deportations would violate international and domestic laws. He said the commission approaches migration,…

“The era of deportations has begun.” A few months ago, this line from far‑right Swedish MEP Charlie Weimers sounded like a provocation. Now, after the agreement on the EU’s new Return Regulation between Parliament, the member states and the Commission, it reads more like an accurate description of the European Union’s political direction. With the…