Platform for Undocumented Migrants (PICUM)

Identity checks, surveillance, humiliation, violence.

In our new joint booklet with @enareurope.bsky.social we document how racialisation operates at and through Europe’s internal borders - with testimonies from the Basque Country, France/Italy, Germany, Croatia.

Read it: picum.org/wp-content/u...

Last week, civil society organisations, advocates, activists and progressive politicians gathered to say no to the EU Deportation Regulation - right in front of the European Parliament.

✊🏿✊🏽✊🏻 We had to come out too.

This law is about scapegoating undocumented people for problems our leaders won't solve - from climate change to collapsing welfare systems.

Help us put humanity, solidarity and common sense back on the table.

❤️ mobilise with others in your community, including through public meetings, collective statements, or peaceful protest

❤️ contact your members of the European Parliament and ask them to delete any reference to detection measures

❤️ sign the petition to stop the Deportation Regulation action.wemove.eu/sign/2025-12...

❤️ translate or adapt our factsheet picum.org/blog/the-pro...

❤️ spread the word in your workplace, organisation or community

The European Parliament will vote on this law in the next days.

Help us stop this:

The draft text also requires member states to deploy broad detection measures, which could take the form of mass surveillance, racial profiling, immigration raids and reporting obligations.

The EU Deportation Regulation ushers in a dystopic detention and deportation regime, with people being sent to countries they don't even know. It imposes harsh sanctions on people living with irregular status, limits access to national permits and will ultimately increase irregularity.

The European Parliament is about to vote.

📢 Let's make our voices heard.

Read on for what you can do - and help us share this post ❤️

Days ago, in Ravenna, Italy, police raided a hospital and launched an investigation against doctors who refused to ok immigration detention for undocumented people, citing health reasons.

Full solidarity to the doctors involved, "guilty" of doing their job. bologna.repubblica.it/cronaca/2026...

Home raids. Mass surveillance. Racial profiling. With 80+ organisations, we're opposing the new EU Deportation Regulation.

The proposal would expand immigration raids + surveillance and turn public spaces + services into tools of immigration enforcement.

Full statement: picum.org/blog/no-to-e...

🚨 Top UN human rights experts have signed a letter to EU institutions denouncing human rights risks in the EU Deportation Regulation.

This is a damning condemnation of a draconian measure that sees and treats migrants as a threat.

✉️ Read the full letter on spcommreports.ohchr.org/TMResultsBas...

𝗔𝗹𝗼𝗿𝘀 𝗾𝘂𝗲 𝗹’𝗘𝘀𝗽𝗮𝗴𝗻𝗲 𝗮 𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗼𝗻𝗰𝗲́ 𝘂𝗻 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗷𝗲𝘁 𝗱𝗲 𝗿𝗲́𝗴𝘂𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮 𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗲 𝗲́𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗲 de personnes sans papiers pour répondre aux besoins du marché du travail et de renforcer l’intégration sociale, le 𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗱𝗲 PICUM apporte un éclairage empirique solide. picum.org/wp-content/u...
@picumofficial.bsky.social

El Gobierno pacta la regularización con Podemos tras los acuerdos con ERC y PNV sin recuperar a Junts Sánchez tenía diseñado un plan en enero de recuperación de la mayoría, pero el caos en Rodalies complica los acuerdos

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We hope more governments will follow this example and invest in policies that protect, empower and include people, and make societies stronger.

This move is a powerful reminder that regularisation is not only possible - it works, and it’s the right thing to do. For thousands of undocumented people who have built their lives in Spain, this could mean dignity, stability and access to basic rights.

Applicants must have been living in Spain for at least 5 months, with various documents accepted as proof, and must not have a criminal record. The measure ⁠does not require approval by the Congress.

Successful applicants would get a one-year residence permit, after which they would be able to access a permanent one.

We needed this news SO MUCH ❤️

The Spanish government has announced today a broad regularisation programme which could benefit around 500.000 people.

At a time when a hostile environment against migrants is spreading on both sides of the Atlantic, this move shows both humanity and common sense.

2025 has not been an easy year.

Yet even amid repressive policies, solidarity and resistance continues to break through.

On this International Migrants Day, we share the stories that inspired and encouraged us this year.

Read them all from our final newsletter: 7z96.mjt.lu/nl3/484AhyWE...

📰 Read our press release: picum.org/blog/return-...

The Council’s position goes against basic humanity and EU values. Now it is up to the European Parliament to reject this approach. Migration governance must be rooted in dignity and rights – not fear, racism, or exclusion.

This so-called ‘Return Regulation’ ushers in a deportation regime that entrenches punishment, violence, and discrimination. Instead of investing in safety, protection, and inclusion, the EU is choosing policies that will push more people into danger and legal limbo.

🚨 entry bans of up to 20 years, extendable to an indefinite duration when security risks are invoked, as well as disproportionate obligations and penalties on people deemed non cooperative in the return procedure.

🚨 extended derogations from fundamental rights for migrants considered a risk to national security and public policy, further blurring the lines between criminal law and migration and reinforcing dangerous stereotypes.

🚨 possibility for member states to establish deportation centres outside the EU, leading to arbitrary detention, serious accountability and human rights monitoring challenges, risks of chain deportations among others;

🚨 expanded grounds for detention, including absence of family ties, engaging in irregular work and insufficient means of subsistence, de facto criminalising poverty and exclusion;