Statewatch | EU prepares to give US direct access to police and immigration databases
www.statewatch.orgThe 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.”
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/48322335
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.
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I am not an expert of EU law, what does a “proposal” actually mean? What is the journey from this document to it actually happening and what recourse do citizens have, if any? And why am I the first fucking person asking this question?
EU has some weak pathetic leaders, but this is a new low, even for them. Bending the knee to the orange pedo is a very weak move.
So the Biden admin got the ball rolling on this? I’m not surprised but I am perpetually disgusted that Democrats have gotten more fashy about the border than the fucking Bush administration was.
Don’t cooperate with fascists, ffs!
Violation of human rights
fucking christ why
because murica so cool we wanna make it happy
yup, yall became full us vassals.
welcome to the club, get ready for austerity so us corporations can thrive.
austerity never begets prosperity. all it really does is temporarily paper over the losses of a waning empire. then you run out of labor to extract and shit hits the fan.
and with the amount of places now doing it, it seems shit is tryna hit the fan already.
Europe has been American vassals for a long time already, this wouldn’t be happening otherwise.
Here before Trump calls in SEAL team 6 on a Romanian anti-American vlogger.
14 eyes is bullshit and this is also bullshit, yet the populations in Europe stare indifferently like cattle on a farm and do not contest it. it’s especially laughable considering the recent push for “sovereignty” in many states…
How do you know what people contest or not? Its not like of all the major world powers or trading blocs that we are the ones falling into fascism so lets keep the hyperbole about simple minded easily controlled populations sleepwalking into authoritarianism to a minimum.
They did declare the US data protection level as equivalent in 2024, so…
I have a feeling Rome has its hands all over it.
Pope Leo XIV wants that data too, you know. That’s how he can root out the protestants to kill.
Great fnord.
Just kick those Danes out of the Parliament. They’re repeatedly shooting themselves in the foot.
Specifics matter. I would be fine with an endpoint that given the passport/id card allows to do a basic check for any severe offenses - as often performed for childcare jobs, too.
Anything beyond that sounds bad.
Why? Who cares about “offenses” of a random traveler. Why do you trust an international crime db to be accurate?
Most care about severe offenses. Trust is not binary. Please make your point or I feel like this is getting nowhere.
In theory not sth. bad. But I have a hard time to imagine the current USA government using that data for the supposed reason.
In theory, very bad. In practice, also very bad.