Home raids
The draft legislation extends detention periods and introduces penalties, including entry bans, fines and possible criminal sanctions for non‑cooperation.
Authorities would be allowed to seize belongings, collect biometric data and search homes.
Coercion is permitted as a last resort to obtain fingerprints.
The deal also allows authorities to search migrants and "relevant premises", a term that rights groups criticise as being overly broad and enabling home raids.
Human rights activists and NGOs working with asylum seekers in the EU say some of the practices are already occurring and have increased in recent months, pointing to a rise in deportations from Germany and other states of recognised refugees to Greece and other EU border countries.
There, they say, in some cases authorities carry out night‑time home searches to detain people and transfer them to detention centres or airports for deportation, sometimes without allowing them to gather their belongings.
Minos Mouzourakis, a lawyer and advocacy officer at Greece‑based non‑profit Refugee Support Aegean, warned the draft legislation amounted to "a recipe for extremely damaging and extremely dangerous practices" in Europe.
French Green lawmaker Mélissa Camara said: "The legalisation of return hubs outside the European Union, the green light for the detention of minors, home visits inspired by ICE practices: The legal arsenal serving a xenophobic ideology is now complete."
