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I suppose even if it doesn't pass it's just a sign of where things are going and a case study of that.

So the politics will be interesting, but it's not even if it doesn't get passed by all of the EU states.

The fact that it's gotten this far, as many of these draconian measures, is an illustration of how the landscape has changed.

I mean, the EU has been trying to develop a uniform system of asylum for many years

because one of the issues there is the tremendous disparity in the

asylum grant rate from country to country.

The ideal is it doesn't, it shouldn't matter what country you set foot in and claim asylum

your chances should be the same wherever it is and that's just not been true even

after the EU developed something called the Common European Asylum System decade or so ago,

that consciously attempted to make the standards uniform across national boundaries.

It didn't work hard to change things at all.

I'm Natalie Orpet, Executive Editor of Law Fair,

and this is the Law Fair Podcast, April 1st, 2024.

In early February, the European Union approved a major overhaul of its immigration laws.

If approved by EU member states, the pact will drastically curtail the rights of migrants and asylum seekers entering the European Union.

It's part of a trend we're seeing all over the world, including here in the US.

I sat down with Steve Myley, professor of international human rights law at University of

Minnesota law school.

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