Statewatch | EU prepares to give US direct access to police and immigration databases
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The massive increase in violent immigration raids, detention and deportation underway in the US has put off many people from visiting the country. Soon there may be yet another reason to think twice about taking a trip to the “land of the free”: US immigration and law enforcement agencies could be given the power to search European databases, to identify people posing “a threat to US security.”

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/48322335

The EU is planning to strike a deal with the US that would let the Department of Homeland Security and other agencies search European databases to identify people posing “a threat to US security,” according to a proposal published by the European Commission at the end of July.

  • Squizzy@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    How do you know what people contest or not? Its not like of all the major world powers or trading blocs that we are the ones falling into fascism so lets keep the hyperbole about simple minded easily controlled populations sleepwalking into authoritarianism to a minimum.