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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 7d

“ABC7 spoke to Pertissue Fisher, a woman who lives in the building. She said ICE agents took everyone in the building, including her, and asked questions later….’They was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other.’”

It can’t happen here, you say. But it is happening.

ICE agents raid South Shore apartments; Trump says Chicago could become military training ground

ICE agents raided a South Shore apartment building overnight as the city braces for a possible military deployment.

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Gabriella Sanchez @gesanchez.bsky.social · 20d

📣Call for applications: Dialogues on Mobility, Surveillance & Resistance JAN 26–30, 26 Tijuana, Mexico
Organized by International Migration Institute & University of Amsterdam's Decolonial Futures Research Priority Area.
Apply by SEP 25. Funding available! www.migrationinstitute.org/imi-archive/...

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Gabriella Sanchez @gesanchez.bsky.social · 20d

📣Call for applications: Dialogues on Mobility, Surveillance & Resistance JAN 26–30, 26 Tijuana, Mexico
Organized by International Migration Institute & University of Amsterdam's Decolonial Futures Research Priority Area.
Apply by SEP 25. Funding available! www.migrationinstitute.org/imi-archive/...

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Florian Trauner @ftrauner.bsky.social · Sep 4

🚨 New publication out!
Together with @linavosyliute.bsky.social, we examine the EU’s risk of falling into a far-right trap in the negotiations on the Return Regulation.
📄 Published as an open-access Policy Brief by @birmm.bsky.social l — free to read & share!

zenodo.org/records/1696...

The EU's Return Regulation: Negotiating on the Basis of Evidence, not Narratives

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Luděk Stavinoha @stavinoha.bsky.social · Sep 9

Full access to the story here: archive.li/2025.09.08-0...

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Luděk Stavinoha @stavinoha.bsky.social · Sep 9

Frontex doesn't like to hear its 'voluntary' interviews of people arriving at Europe's shores being described as covert 'interrogations'. Why? Because it has no legal mandate to interrogate and criminalise migrants.

Yet, that is precisely what's happening in Spain.

elpais.com/espana/2025-...

Enfrentamiento entre España y Frontex: dudas sobre el uso de los datos que se obtienen de los migrantes

Documentos internos a los que ha tenido acceso EL PAÍS revelan tensiones entre la agencia de la UE y las autoridades españolas por las entrevistas a los recién llegados

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Gabriella Sanchez @gesanchez.bsky.social · Jul 17

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Gabriella Sanchez @gesanchez.bsky.social · Jul 14

On June 11, ICE and police in Baton Rouge, raided 9 massage parlors, detaining 10 Chinese women, their names and whereabouts unreleased. They disappeared into ICE’s sprawling detention system. Not a single migrant rights organization has called for their release. truthout.org/articles/sex...

Sex Workers Are Being Abducted by ICE — and Abandoned by Respectability Politics

Sex workers targeted by ICE need the migrant justice movement’s full solidarity.

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Solomon @wearesolomon.bsky.social · Jul 8

Here is how #Frontex unlawfully shared thousands of people’s personal data with #Europol

Investigation conducted by Solomon, the French newspaper Le Monde, the Spanish newspaper El País, and the German outlet Netzpolitik.

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Frontex unlawfully shared thousands of people's personal data with Europol

Under the banner of fighting migrant smuggling, Frontex has collected, and unlawfully siphoned to Europol, personal data for years—quietly drawing thousands of migrants, as well as EU citizens aiding ...

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RSA - Refugee Support Aegean @rsaegean.org · Jul 8

Cross-border investigation: @lemonde.fr, @elpais.com, and @netzpolitik.org reveal how, between 2016 and 2023, @frontex.bsky.social illegally transferred the personal data of over 13,000 people to Europol.

Published by @wearesolomon.bsky.social 👇

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Frontex unlawfully shared thousands of people's personal data with Europol

Under the banner of fighting migrant smuggling, Frontex has collected, and unlawfully siphoned to Europol, personal data for years—quietly drawing thousands of migrants, as well as EU citizens aiding ...

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Joe Galvin @joegalvin.bsky.social · Jul 8

Important investigation from @elpais.com on how migrants and activists were treated as criminals by Frontex and Europol. “My whole life was in that police file... They wanted to portray me as promiscuous, a lesbian, using morality to make me look suspicious,” says Helena Maleno, a Spanish activist.

Lola Hierro @lolahierro.bsky.social · Jul 7

Con @balkanizator.bsky.social y @stavinoha.bsky.social publico hoy esta investigación en @elpais.com acerca de las prácticas ilícitas de @frontex.bsky.social en la obtención y el manejo de datos personales de migrantes y activistas. elpais.com/internaciona...

Frontex transfirió durante años ilegalmente a Europol datos de migrantes y activistas

Una investigación de varios medios, entre ellos EL PAÍS, revela que la agencia europea de fronteras facilitó a la entidad policial información indiscriminada de miles de personas a partir de entrevist...

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Luděk Stavinoha @stavinoha.bsky.social · Jul 8

Serious questions about evasion of accountability arise, too. FOI documents reveal that senior EU officials had coordinated to misled MEPs about the scale of unlawful Frontex-Europol data transfers during a hearing that followed our earlier investigation: balkaninsight.com/2022/07/07/e...

EU’s Frontex Tripped in Its Plan for ‘Intrusive’ Surveillance of Migrants

Frontex and the European Commission sidelined their own data protection watchdogs in pursuing a much-criticised expansion of “intrusive” data collection from migrants and refugees to feed into Europol...

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Luděk Stavinoha @stavinoha.bsky.social · Jul 8

For @gesanchez.bsky.social - leading expert on smuggling - 'EU agencies often justify harvesting personal data from migrants by claiming it is necessary to combat sophisticated...smuggling networks. This creates the illusion that the data is actually reliable or useful. We know it's neither.'

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Luděk Stavinoha @stavinoha.bsky.social · Jul 8

Our investigation reveals that prominent human rights defenders, who have faced lengthy criminal investigations in Spain and Greece - including @helenamaleno.bsky.social and @aegeanboatreport.bsky.social - have also landed in Frontex & Europol databases.

www.lemonde.fr/en/les-decod...

Frontex unlawfully shared thousands of people's personal data with European police

In the name of combating migrant smugglers, the European Union's border surveillance agency spent years collecting information on migrants and civil society activists deemed 'suspect,' before passing ...

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Luděk Stavinoha @stavinoha.bsky.social · Jul 8

Between 2016-2023, Frontex unlawfully shared the personal data of more than 13,000 'suspects' with Europol, via supposedly 'voluntary' debriefing interviews with newly arrived migrants that lack basic legal safeguards - branded by experts as 'covert interrogations'.

elpais.com/internaciona...

Frontex transfirió durante años ilegalmente a Europol datos de migrantes y activistas

Una investigación de varios medios, entre ellos EL PAÍS, revela que la agencia europea de fronteras facilitó a la entidad policial información indiscriminada de miles de personas a partir de entrevist...

elpais.com

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Luděk Stavinoha @stavinoha.bsky.social · Jul 8

For years, human rights advocates have warned of the criminalisation of migrants & activists at Europe’s borders.
With @balkanizator.bsky.social & @lolahierro.bsky.social we shed light on the opaque role of Frontex and Europol in drawing thousands into this dragnet.
wearesolomon.com/mag/format/i...

Frontex unlawfully shared thousands of people's personal data with Europol

Under the banner of fighting migrant smuggling, Frontex has collected, and unlawfully siphoned to Europol, personal data for years—quietly drawing thousands of migrants, as well as EU citizens aiding ...

wearesolomon.com

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Antonella Napolitano @svaroschi.bsky.social · Jul 8

The criminalisation of solidarity is an incredible worrying element of the EU's response to migrant smuggling.

We went deep on this issues with @gesanchez.bsky.social , @bramfrouws.bsky.social and @bernd-parusel.bsky.social in this seminar hosted by @sieps.bsky.social

sieps.se/en/seminars/...

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Lola Hierro @lolahierro.bsky.social · Jul 7

También publicamos en @lemonde.fr , versión en inglés y francés www.lemonde.fr/article-offe...

Migrants : comment Frontex a alimenté de manière illicite les polices européennes avec les données personnelles de milliers de personnes

Au nom de la lutte contre les passeurs, l’agence européenne de surveillance des frontières a recueilli pendant des années des informations sur des migrants et des militants associatifs jugés « suspect...

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Lola Hierro @lolahierro.bsky.social · Jul 7

Con @balkanizator.bsky.social y @stavinoha.bsky.social publico hoy esta investigación en @elpais.com acerca de las prácticas ilícitas de @frontex.bsky.social en la obtención y el manejo de datos personales de migrantes y activistas. elpais.com/internaciona...

Frontex transfirió durante años ilegalmente a Europol datos de migrantes y activistas

Una investigación de varios medios, entre ellos EL PAÍS, revela que la agencia europea de fronteras facilitó a la entidad policial información indiscriminada de miles de personas a partir de entrevist...

elpais.com

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European Ombudsman @ombudsman.europa.eu · Jun 25

Following a complaint by civil society organisations, we opened an inquiry into @ec.europa.eu decision not to carry out an impact assessment on two legislative proposals to counter migrant smuggling.

As a first step, we have asked the EC a set of questions.

www.ombudsman.europa.eu/news-documen...

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Bernd Parusel @bernd-parusel.bsky.social · Jun 25

Missed our recent @sieps.bsky.social webinar on migrant smuggling and the EU’s counter-smuggling policies, with @gesanchez.bsky.social, @bramfrouws.bsky.social & @svaroschi.bsky.social?
There is now a recording you can watch! 👇 sieps.se/en/seminars/...

Assessing the EU’s response to the smuggling of migrants

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Gabriella Sanchez @gesanchez.bsky.social · Jun 12

📢📢📢Join @svaroschi.bsky.social , @bramfrouws.bsky.social, @bernd-parusel.bsky.social for a conversation on the #facilitationproposal and its implications, next 17 June at 15.00 CET.

SIEPS @sieps.bsky.social · Jun 9

The European Commission has proposed new legislation to fight the smuggling of migrants. Researcher Gabriella Sanchez has critically examined the proposal in a recent SIEPS analysis.

In a webinar on 17 June, she will present her findings alongside expert commentators from policy and academia.

Assessing the EU’s response to the smuggling of migrants

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Tom Cartwright @tomcartwright.bsky.social · Jun 8

Next deportation stop- Nepal.

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Tom Cartwright @tomcartwright.bsky.social · Jun 8

✈️👀 I believe this is a likely large jet deportation to Bangladesh. It would follow small jet deportations to there in February and April. Would not be surprised to see another atop on this route.

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Antonella Napolitano @svaroschi.bsky.social · Jun 5

Looking forward to speaking in this webinar on the EU’s legislation on counter-smuggling of migrants organised by @sieps.bsky.social next 17 June.

I will be joined by @gesanchez.bsky.social and @bramfrouws.bsky.social

Thanks @bernd-parusel.bsky.social for the invitation!

sieps.se/en/seminars/...

Assessing the EU’s response to the smuggling of migrants

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