{"id":8620,"date":"2026-03-30T18:19:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T18:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/?p=8620"},"modified":"2026-03-30T18:19:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T18:19:15","slug":"eu-moves-to-allow-two-years-jail-for-families-facing-deportation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/2026\/03\/30\/eu-moves-to-allow-two-years-jail-for-families-facing-deportation\/","title":{"rendered":"EU moves to allow two years\u2019 jail for families facing deportation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The European Parliament&#8217;s civil liberties committee has approved a new &#8220;return regulation&#8221; that could see migrant families and minors detained for up to two years, a move critics compare to U.S. ICE-style enforcement. Supported by a coalition of center-right and far-right MEPs, the bill facilitates the &#8220;Albania model&#8221; of processing asylum seekers in facilities outside the EU and introduces a digitally-driven surveillance system including GPS tagging and phone seizures. While proponents argue the measure is necessary to fix a system where only one-in -five of deportation orders are currently executed, opponents dismiss this statistic as misleading.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Date<\/strong>: March 10, 2026. <strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/euobserver.com\/206195\/eu-moves-to-allow-two-years-jail-for-families-facing-deportation\/\">euobserver.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Parliament&#8217;s civil liberties committee has approved a new &#8220;return regulation&#8221; that could see migrant families and minors detained for up to two years, a move critics compare to U.S. ICE-style enforcement. Supported by a coalition of center-right and far-right MEPs, the bill facilitates the &#8220;Albania model&#8221; of processing asylum seekers in facilities outside [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":8623,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-immigration-and-integration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8620"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8847,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8620\/revisions\/8847"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}