Von der Leyen Wants To Deport Migrants Her EU Policies Helped Bring In

Rising support for anti-immigration parties across Europe is forcing Brussels to rethink policies it once championed. Ursula von der Leyen welcomed new EU measures to speed up deportations this week, presenting them as proof that Brussels is finally getting tougher on illegal immigration. Yet the measures are intended to deal with a problem created in large part by immigration policies that her own European People’s Party (EPP) spent years supporting. On Wednesday, the European Parliament approved legislation allowing member states to expand detention powers, accelerate deportations and establish so-called “return hubs” in non-EU countries for migrants ordered to leave the...