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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Lisa O'Carroll in Brussels

EU migration package risks racial profiling and discrimination, NGOs say

Crowded small boat off island
Migrants arriving on the Italian island of Lampedusa in September. Photograph: Roberto Salomone/The Guardian

The EU risks opening the door to increased discrimination and racial profiling in what is being described as a “potentially irreversible attack” on the international system offering asylum and refugee protection, human rights organisations have said.

Seventeen NGOs have together sounded the alarm before what is expected to be one of the final meetings on the text of a package of controversial new migration laws already agreed by most EU leaders.

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