Brussels tells EU states to detain more freely migrants awaiting deportationBy Gabriela BaczynskaBRUSSELS, March 2 (Reuters) – European Union member states should be ready to detain more migrants who have no case for asylum to prevent them from running away before they are deported, the chief migration official with the bloc‘s executive arm in Brussels said. “Return rates have to be improved,” Migration Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos said on Thursday in presenting new, non-binding, proposals by the executive European Commission. It recommended shorter appeals deadlines, issuing return decision with no expiry date and considering more detentions, including for minors, which is barred now by some member states. It said EU states should be less coy about detaining people for the maximum allowed pre-deportation time-limit of 18 months if that was needed to ensure an effective deportation. But in meantime they have to stay somewhere – in very dignified conditions – in order to avoid absconding.”It said detention should not be ruled out for minors, which is currently a red line in some EU states.

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