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EU Parliament Backs Asylum Seeker 'Return Hubs' Abroad

EU Parliament Backs Asylum Seeker 'Return Hubs' Abroad

EU Parliament Backs Asylum Seeker 'Return Hubs' Abroad
Above: **Watermarked Getty Image. Kindly Replace** The EU Parliament logo in Brussels on March 26, 2026. Image credit: Katharina Kausche/picture alliance/Getty Images

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Return hubs are a dangerous shortcut that outsources EU human rights obligations to countries with no accountability to European law. Deporting people to nations they've never set foot in — and detaining them indefinitely — isn't tough policy, it's a rights violation funded by taxpayers. Asylum applications were already dropping before this vote, proving there's no crisis justifying such a reckless overreach.

The EU Parliament finally grew a spine, voting 389 to 206 to greenlight the toughest deportation framework Europe has ever seen. Return hubs, detention up to 24 months and Union-wide return orders mean irregular migrants can no longer game a broken system indefinitely. This is exactly the kind of firm, enforceable action that restores credibility to European border policy.

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