EU Proposes Deportation Centers Outside Bloc for Rejected Asylum Seekers

The proposal, titled the Common European System for Returns, would also consider an order for a migrant to leave one state as an expulsion from the whole bloc.

Migrants who have arrived at the shore of the deserted Greek island of Pasas wait for the coast guard to transport them to the islands of Oinousses on Jan. 20, 2016. Petros Giannakouris/AP Photo

The European Commission on March 11 proposed allowing member states to set up deportation centers in non-European Union countries for migrants whose asylum claims have been rejected.

For decades, countries in the bloc have struggled to expel asylum seekers whose claims were denied, both from their national territories and the European Union as a whole.