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Photo by Ahmad Shakir Shamsulbadri on pexels.com   2026 has barely begun, yet the United States has already carried out a deportation program that places asylum seekers and stateless persons into arbitrary detention in a third country. Under a secret arrangement  with Cameroon, seventeen individuals from nine African nations were removed from the United States despite court orders  protecting many from returning to their home countries. Upon arrival in Yaoundé, the Cameroonia

Photo by Ravi Sharma on unsplash.com The UK’s controversial “one in, one out”  asylum policy, a bilateral return and resettlement agreement with France aimed at discouraging small boat Channel crossings, is facing mounting scrutiny from rights groups, legal challenges,s and data analysts as 2026 unfolds. Under the pilot scheme launched in August 2025,  the UK detains some people arriving irregularly by small boat and returns them to France. In exchange, France agrees to trans

Photo by Marco on pexels.com In its 2025 World Report , Human Rights Watch (HRW) expressed concern about the European Union's new immigration and asylum policies. In May 2024, the EU adopted a new Pact on Migration and Asylum , along with new partnerships with third countries designated as safe. According to HRW, the new legislation is expected to “ make it harder to apply for asylum, increasing detention at borders, and allowing EU countries to suspend access to and deny a

Photo by José Santana Murias on Pexels.com In the first weeks of 2026, Minneapolis, Minnesota, became a focal point of protests, social tension and institutional conflict linked to operations carried out by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and to the broader federal immigration enforcement strategy adopted by the White House . The sequence of events, community reactions, legal actions and the national policy backdrop reveal a complex situation that goes wel

Photo by Daniel Omolewa on Unsplash.com On September 25, 2025, the Netherlands and Uganda signed a Declaration of Intent,  representing yet another problematic case of the externalization of migration management .  Promoted by the extreme right-wing component of the Dutch political landscape (PVV) , this scheme delegates the most critical phase of the asylum procedure,  the coercive return of rejected international protection applicants, to a third State.  This raises complex

photo by Lina Kivaka on pexels.com Over the last few years, the UK has seen a significant rise in anti-migrant movements and protests,...