The critics of the initiative have slammed the facilities as detention centers located in “legal black holes”

European lawmakers have endorsed the opening of talks with the EU Council on a new controversial legal framework to establish block-wide mechanisms to expel illegal migrants, including creating the so-called “return hubs” located in third countries.

The idea to create de facto detention facilities outside of the EU’s borders to hold migrants deemed to have no right to stay within the bloc has been opposed by rights groups and pro-migration political forces. Under the proposed Return Regulation, which is still in early stages of the…

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