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.”

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.

    • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      571·
      4 days ago

      Literal treason. When are we going to learn that we live in capitalist dictatorships and our governments are not like us?

    • saltesc@lemmy.worldEnglish
      29·
      4 days ago

      I see it more like a defensive thing for Europeans in the States. An effort to assure safety from being wrongly accused or detained. It gives these people clear legal grounds if/when US immigration does it’s thing. It is hard to get away with their bullshit when they are provided a channel of transparency. They would have to willfully ignore something that is so blatant. If they do, their mallace is even more exposed.

      Should it have ever come to this? Of course not. But stations like that were passed long ago and the train isn’t stopping.

      • ViatorOmnium@piefed.socialEnglish
        31·
        4 days ago

        What about we start treating the US as we treat North Korea and people that travel there do it at their own risk, instead of exposing everyone to the American Gestapo?

        • saltesc@lemmy.worldEnglish
          21·
          4 days ago

          It’ll get there t this rate. But not quite yet. That sort of action happens about two years too late, so we have about five to go.

      • Auli@lemmy.caEnglish
        4·
        4 days ago

        Fuck that if America needs they just put a warning. If people want to travel it is their fault.