Draft documents prepared for EU summit reveal plans to give police and border agencies enhanced powers to process, expel or detain migrantsEU leaders have decided to create a new system of quarantining migrants in southern Italy and Greece to enable the forcible and swift registration, fingerprinting, expulsion, and, if necessary, detention for up to 18 months of those deemed to be illegal immigrants crossing the Mediterranean from Libya.A summit of EU leaders on Thursday is to grapple with the Mediterranean refugee crisis and is likely to give EU police and border control agencies beefed up powers to use coercion in dealing with the influx in an attempt to increase the numbers of those being sent back where they came from. Related: EU countries to take in 40,000 asylum seekers in migration quota proposal Related: Migrants on Hungary's border fence: 'This wall, we will not accept it' Continue reading...
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