EU border agency chief quits after rights abuse accusations
(www.reuters.com)
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Specifically he was fired for "pushbacks", the practice of returning would-be immigrants to their country of origin. The EU deems this unlawful if this would place the would-be immigrant at risk.
However, it then blithely asserts that all of the recent immigrants are Syrian. This has been documented not to be correct - large numbers state they are Syrian, but most of the time investigation reveals this to be untrue.
I understand that demographically, it's mostly actually young Iranian men adventuring abroad.
Also Afghans and people from the Sub-Saharan Africa.