European Commission Endorses Exporting Asylum Seekers

This means an EU country could send an asylum seeker to a country halfway around the world, where she has never been, doesn’t speak the language, and has no cultural ties, family or community, and where prospects for a fair procedure and support for rebuilding her life could be in doubt. Under the new proposal, her appeal of the decision would no longer prevent her from being put on a plane before the appeal is considered.

a.k.a. The Rwanda Model