We've just published a document that details the EU's disturbing plans to expand cross-border travel surveillance.
The changes include using travel data for new purposes, such as immigration control, and bypassing important safeguards.
Read more: buff.ly/N8iffJW
The image shows people working on a farm in the UK. The headline reads: "The UK government has been slammed for 'callous' inaction on farmworkers abuse"
NEW: For the last few years, calls to reform the seasonal worker visa have gone largely ignored
Now, the government has even rejected several recommendations from its own independent immigration advisers...
Story link in the replies ⬇️ @mellino.bsky.social
A red-printed hand holding out several hundred euros is overlaid with the green-printed wake of a boat. Above this, a text box reads "The EU's “new and innovative solution” to migration. Is it a rights-based solution? A response to the many statements from campaigners? No. The document we obtained shows EU policy-makers want to ressurect an old idea: paying non-EU states to intercept and detain people at sea, before they can reach European shores."
Unsurprisingly, the EU's supposedly “new and innovative solution” to migration is a re-packaged and previously rejected one.
Read more in the article by @freylindsay.bsky.social: buff.ly/yGtueHB
NEW - JAMRADIO - (EXCLUSIVE)
Windrush Statutory Public Inquiry?
The Home Office Minister can’t answer a simple question:
Why do Post Office Scandal and Infected Blood Scandal victims get full public inquiries, but Windrush Scandal victims don’t?
Been listening to the Civil Fleet podcast for ages, so had a great time babbling on about the 'Libyan Coast Guard' and the other random EU migration shenanigans we track at @statewatch.bsky.social . Thanks to Ben for editing me into something resembling coherence...
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🚨NEW EPISODE 🎧
Frey Lindsey from @statewatch.bsky.social tells us how the Libyan Coastguard isn’t a unified organisation but a mixture of armed factions.
We also discuss a leaked EU document proposing new ‘place of safety arrangements’ with non-European Mediterranean countries.
Statement just sent to me by SOS Humanity:
'Sea-Watch 5 detained: Second Justice Fleet vessel punished for non-communication with Libya'
Worth noting that when asked, in reference to Afghanistan, about the possibility of people being prosecuted/executed after being deported, Deputy Home Commissioner Luchner said basically 'we ask them not to do it and they assure us they won't'
30.01.2026 17:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Very strong words from Mehdi Kassou of BelRefugees on the EU/Belgium working with the Taliban on deportations: "Administration is never neutral when it involves identifying people, classifying them and producing decisions that determine their future, their freedom and sometimes their survival"
30.01.2026 16:58 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Interested in US border control and the experience of claiming asylum? Juliana in Arizona talks about what it's like : blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...
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The other day I spoke to journalist Adejuwon Soyinka on his new video podcast The Insight, about how the EU wants to ramp up the deportation of Nigerians + West Africans, and how these often brutal 'returns' are already a regular occurence, done largely in secret. www.youtube.com/watch?v=du3I...
13.01.2026 12:46 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Mehrere Abgeordnete der #AfD bejubeln #Trumps Vorgehen in #Venezuela und zeigen ihre Verachtung gegenüber dem #Völkerrecht. Sie folgen Trumps Weltbild: dem Recht des Stärkeren – geprägt vom nationalsozialistischen Vordenker Carl Schmitt.
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Are the EU's border policy plans similar to the US?
Listen in as Statewatch journalist Frey Lindsay shares the answer on Lagos Talks radio.
Want to help change the direction? Follow our bulletin, Outsourcing borders, here: buff.ly/8qfXgJa
Speaker: @freylindsay.bsky.social
EU doubles its pullback system in #Libya:
Renegade Benghazi to receive control centre and surveillance tower to prevent increasing departures of migrant boats to #Crete. This will benefit the murderous militia TBZ.
digit.site36.net/2026/01/06/e...
Leitstelle und Wachturm: Die EU kopiert ihr Hintertür-Modell aus Westlibyen in den Osten. Berüchtigte Milizen sollen damit Geflüchtete auf einer neuen Route nach Kreta abfangen.
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The 12th issue of the #ExternalisationBulletin is out now 🚨
This edition covers:
• Efforts to expand Frontex’s mandate
• Growing concerns over the EU’s digital border systems
• Threats to undermine EU's new migration "solidarity" system
And more, here: buff.ly/GK3RMMW
The 11th issue of the #ExternalisationBulletin is here.
Here are some of the updates.
1. Global counter-smuggling alliance:
The EU prepares a joint declaration for its global alliance on migrant smuggling, aiming to extend enforcement powers “along the whole route.”
Hell yes
02.11.2025 09:36 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Close-up of a suit and tie with a Europol pin above a header that says "analysis: Europol and private companies." Below is an explanation of the increasing role of private companies, with the example of Microsoft employees having a desk at Europol's office.
The same summary text listed in the description is next to an image of Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel.
1/ What does the increasing relationship between Europol and private companies mean for our rights and democratic process?
That's precisely what we cover in our latest analysis by @giacomoza.bsky.social
"I am convinced that the Sudanese people are capable of making peace and shaping their future."
How Sudanese refugees have adapted to displacement in Uganda ⤵️
www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-tr...
White text on a black background with a red gradient radiating from the bottom right corner. In the same corner, a white dashed line trace the shape of a border. The top right corner says "issue 10". In the centre, a version of the text from the caption describes the content of the bulletin, "Outsourcing borders: monitoring EU externalisation policy." It says: The latest issue is out now. It covers: 1. EU plans for the Mediterranean, Atlantic and Balkan migration routes; 2. New proposals for Frontex projects in Egypt and Morocco; 3. Potential deportations from EU states to Côte D’Ivoire. 4. It also makes 14 documents from EU institutions public.
The 10th issue of the #ExternalisationBulletin is out now 🚨
It covers:
• Progress on plans for major migration routes
• Frontex projects proposed in Egypt & Morocco
• Potential deportations from EU to Côte d’Ivoire
• & more.
Full issue, compiled by @freylindsay.bsky.social, here:
buff.ly/bWL4McV
Last week at @periodismomigra.bsky.social we had a great conversation w @gonzalofanjul.bsky.social @josebautista.bsky.social about development agencies and EU funds in externalization policies.
I wrote about the surveillance component of this EU approach to cooperation
gr.boell.org/en/2025/09/3...
🙋 Our colleague @dianavolpe.bsky.social providing much needed insight on how Italy outsources its 'dirty work' to Libya as part of a migration agreement, and why recent attacks on rescue ships are unlikely to turn the tide ⤵️
www.rfi.fr/en/internati...
With the help of @wlacher.bsky.social, analyst Marc Tilley and researcher Diana Volpe, I've attempted something approaching a comprehensive* explainer on what the Libyan Coast Guard is, and is not for @infomigrants.net www.infomigrants.net/en/post/6722...
07.10.2025 09:43 — 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1
Labour markets and refugees are increasingly dependent on each other, but the markets always have the upper hand.
Aslı Salihoğlu and @cthibos.bsky.social kicking off our new series on refugee labour in the global economy ⤵️
www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-tr...
Made possible by your invaluable insights, Wolfram, thank you!
04.10.2025 13:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Libyan Coast Guard - explained @freylindsay.bsky.social @infomigrants.net
04.10.2025 07:20 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Text says "the EU’s latest idea is to deport people to countries they have zero connection to." Around the text are faded and noisy images. One is of a table full of conversing people who appear to be light-skinned and wearing formal attire. A lightbulb floats above them.
Black text on a paper background says "EU member states are talking about changing the “safe third country” rules so they can deport more people—even if it means undermining safeguards. And the Council agrees. This is despite the fact that some of the countries considered “safe” include Tunisia, Egypt, and Morocco—places with ‘well-documented rights abuses and limited protections for both their own citizens and migrants’ according to EuroMedRights."
faded and noisy green scissors are about to cut a ribbon, above text that says "this change would mean reducing or deleting the current "connection criteria" which limits where states deport people to. Apparently, member states consider the problem of where to send people to be the biggest administrative hurdle to deporting them. They do not, however, seem to see it as a moral issue, as many others might. "
Text states "13 member states want to delete the 'connection criteria' altogether. A map of Europe indicates the countries that want to delete it, with their borders filled in with green, contrasting the lighter shade of others. This includes: Austria, Bulgaria, Czechia, Cyprus, Finland, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland and Slovakia.
The EU’s latest idea is to deport people to countries they have zero connection to.
EU member states are talking about changing the “safe third country” rules so they can deport more people—even if it means undermining safeguards. And the Council agrees.
Read more: buff.ly/8RuyAP4
I shared some of my thoughts on the relationship between the EU, search and rescue NGOs, and the so-called Libyan coast guard in a conversation with Frey here:
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