{"id":49268,"date":"2016-02-03T10:20:28","date_gmt":"2016-02-03T15:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=49268"},"modified":"2016-02-03T10:20:28","modified_gmt":"2016-02-03T15:20:28","slug":"confiscations-deportations-and-vague-promises-europe-asylum-policy-shifts-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2016\/02\/confiscations-deportations-and-vague-promises-europe-asylum-policy-shifts-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Confiscations, Deportations, and Vague Promises: Europe Asylum Policy Shifts Again\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.vice.com\/article\/confiscations-deportations-and-vague-promises-europe-asylum-policy-shifts-again-1\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/uk-announces-10-million-pounds-for-unaccompanied-refugee-children-in-apparent-but-vague-compromise-1453986571.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"336\" height=\"335\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thousands of refugee children across Europe are still\u00a0waiting to find out how a\u00a0new UK government pledge\u00a0on immigration rules will actually\u00a0alter their lives \u2014\u00a0as other countries across the continent also\u00a0struggle with the influx of migrants and refugees that is\u00a0showing no signs of slowing.<\/p>\n<p>In\u00a0Sweden, Interior Minister Anders Ygeman announced that as many as 80,000 migrants may be deported over the next few years if their asylum claims are rejected.\u00a0Ygeman said that around 45 percent of 2015&#8217;s\u00a0record 163,000 asylum seekers would likely be made to leave.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday also saw a\u00a0Dutch <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-europe-35426927\" target=\"_blank\">strategy<\/a> aimed at tackling the migrant crisis\u00a0put forward by Labour party leader Diederik Samsom, which\u00a0suggested the European Union (EU)\u00a0should begin sending sea arrivals back to Turkey from Greece. In return, the EU would\u00a0pledge to take between 150,000 and 250,000 refugees each year directly from Turkey \u2014 much less than the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/5683d0b56.html\" target=\"_blank\">1 million<\/a> that arrived to Europe by sea in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>This proposal reportedly has the support of Prime Minister Mark Rutte, but its implementation would depend on Turkey being considered a safe country for refugees \u2014 which most of the EU does not currently agree it is. In a statement, Amnesty International called the plan &#8220;morally bankrupt.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Last Tuesday saw Denmark adopt a law allowing the seizure of migrants&#8217; personal belongings. Possessions including watches, mobile phones, and computers can be taken as a contribution to the expenses of keeping them.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese dissident Ai Weiwei shut down an\u00a0art\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2016\/jan\/27\/ai-weiwei-shuts-danish-show-in-protest-at-asylum-seeker-law\" target=\"_blank\">exhibition<\/a> in\u00a0Copenhagen in protest at the legislation. &#8220;It made me feel very angry,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>READ FULL ARTICLE =&gt;\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/news.vice.com\/article\/confiscations-deportations-and-vague-promises-europe-asylum-policy-shifts-again-1\">Confiscations, Deportations, and Vague Promises: Europe Asylum Policy Shifts Again | VICE News<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of refugee children across Europe are still\u00a0waiting to find out how a\u00a0new UK government pledge\u00a0on immigration rules will actually\u00a0alter their lives \u2014\u00a0as other countries across the continent also\u00a0struggle with the influx of migrants and refugees that is\u00a0showing no signs of slowing. In\u00a0Sweden, Interior Minister Anders Ygeman announced that as many as 80,000 migrants may&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49269,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,22,18],"tags":[2003,1820,549,335],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49268"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49268"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49331,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49268\/revisions\/49331"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}