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“We can expect families being separated and people being deported without appropriate judicial review to places they don’t even know,” said Silvia Carta, Advocacy Officer at PICUM, a collective of organizations that defends migrants’ rights.The EU’s executive branch, the European Commission, proposed that the 27 member countries should no longer feel bound to ensure that migrants have a link to a place they might be sent to.

The commission, which proposes EU laws and ensures they are respected, said that unauthorized migrants could also be deemed to have a connection to a country if they crossed it safely on their way to Europe. This wouldn’t apply to children traveling alone.Under the plans, people could be forcibly taken to one of these countries before their cases are heard, even if they appeal.The new draft rules, which must be endorsed by EU nations and the European Parliament to enter force, were unveiled as a number of countries including Britain and Italy seek to set up

in third countries where rejected asylum seekersuntil they can be deported.

The commission said its plans will speed up asylum procedures and ease pressure on European administrations and facilities. EU law currently requires authorities to prove a link between applicants and the safe third country they might be sent to.

“Instead of spending endless time and resources offloading its responsibilities to other countries, the EU should invest in its own asylum systems,” said Amnesty International’s EU Advocate on Migration and Asylum, Olivia Sundberg Diez.“We are witnessing the terrible price of antisemitism and wild incitement against Israel,” he said in a statement.

Vance said “my heart breaks” for the victims. “Antisemitic violence has no place in the United States,” he wrote on social platform X.“I stand with the entire Jewish community in condemning this sickening violence,” she wrote on X. “Antisemitism and violence have no place in our country. We all must come together and fight hatred.”

“It is just a horrific tragedy, an act of terror, and another way in which we have to recognize Jewish people all over the world are being singled out for these kind of horrible attacks,” Huckabee said in an interview on Fox & Friends.Huckabee went on to push back against critics of Israel’s execution of the war in Gaza, blaming Hamas for the war dragging on.