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Article 5 of the regulation makes a significant leap: police and border authorities would be able to force people who cannot prove regular entry to submit to screening not just at the border, but anywhere within an EU country (Photo: Sara Prestianni)

EU's new migration pact is normalisation of racial profiling

EU legislators are just weeks away from enabling racial profiling and unlawful de facto detention across Europe's external-border member states.

The New Pact on Migration has been hailed as a solution to long-running tensions on migration.

In fact, its measures are worsening existing problems and creating new ones.

Under the Screening Regulation — a key file in t...

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Hope Barker is the senior policy analyst for the NGO Border Violence Monitoring Network. (BVMN)

Article 5 of the regulation makes a significant leap: police and border authorities would be able to force people who cannot prove regular entry to submit to screening not just at the border, but anywhere within an EU country (Photo: Sara Prestianni)

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Hope Barker is the senior policy analyst for the NGO Border Violence Monitoring Network. (BVMN)

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