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The border between Austria and Italy (Photo: Alice Latta)

Migrant pushbacks inside EU to be codified in law, say critics

The EU is set to pass a law allowing police to return suspected irregular migrants to bordering EU member states — in what critics are describing as internal pushbacks based on racial profiling.

Described in the bill as transfers, the reforms are part of wider efforts to tweak the rules underpinning free movement throughout the passport-free Schengen zone, spanning most EU...

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