Fears of ICE-style immigration crackdown as EU politicians set to overhaul asylum laws

Irish MEP claims too much misinformation about migration, with complex issues reduced 'to slogans, outrage, and false claims'

Italian Coast Guard personnel evacuate migrants off the coast of the Sicilian Island of Lampedusa. File picture: Jan Salmen/AP

EU politicians have promised to increase deportations of undocumented migrants, under a new law that critics say mimics elements of the Trump administration’s brutal immigration crackdown.

Finalising a key element of an overhauled EU asylum and migration system, politicians have agreed a regulation that will enable national authorities to raid people’s homes to enforce deportation orders.