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A Romanian Border Police patrol vessel with Frontex markings in the port of Crotone, Italy — Photo: Francesco Placco, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Policy Watch|European Union

Brussels proposes a bigger Frontex: 30,000 officers by 2041, a deportations hub and a centre to monitor social media and flag posts under the DSA

The Commission’s draft recast of the Frontex regulation (COM(2026) 1030) would grow the border agency’s standing corps to 30,000 by 2041, including a 17,000-officer reserve, make Frontex the EU’s central actor for returns, add a Quick Reaction Force, and create an Online Monitoring and Response Centre that would watch public social media, flag ‘illegal content’ as a DSA trusted flagger and track ‘disinformation’. €11.9 billion is earmarked for 2028–2034. MEPs and governments must now negotiate it.

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Senate (Eerste Kamer) plenary chamber, The Hague — Photo: Rijksvastgoedbedrijf / Corne Bastiaansen, CC0

Policy Watch|European Union

Dutch Senate passes return-and-detention law that ends court-ordered penalty payments for late asylum decisions

On 13 October the Eerste Kamer passed the Return and Immigration Detention Act (34.309) and its amending novelle (35.501). The amendment abolishes the dwangsommen, penalty payments courts can order the IND to pay when it misses asylum decision deadlines. The laws also give immigration detention its own administrative-law regime, allow 23-hour lockdowns in serious disorder, and widen “undesirable alien” declarations.

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A USCIS Application Support Center, Queens, New York — Photo: Tdorante10, CC BY-SA 4.0

Policy Watch|United States

DHS makes permanent its ban on automatic work-permit renewals while a new card is pending

A final rule published 14 October 2026 (91 FR 65306) adopts without change the October 2025 interim rule that ended automatic extensions of Employment Authorization Documents for people who timely renew in covered categories. Asylum seekers and green-card applicants are the two biggest groups. Renewals filed before 30 October 2025 can still get up to 540 days; those filed on or after that date cannot. The rule is effective on publication.

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Court of Justice of the European Union, Luxembourg — Photo: FrDr, CC BY-SA 4.0

Policy Watch|European Union

EU court: the Netherlands cannot freeze asylum claims from people under Ukraine temporary protection

In Case C-249/25 (1 October 2026), the Court of Justice ruled that automatically suspending the asylum claims of people who already hold EU temporary protection breaks EU law. Normal decision deadlines apply, though states may extend them or work through a backlog in phases. The Dutch asylum minister told NOS the ruling means about 140,000 shelved claims must now be processed.

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East facade of the U.S. Supreme Court — Photo: Jeff Kubina, CC BY-SA 2.0

Accountability|United States

SCOTUS stays block on third-country removals — and takes the merits

On 29 September 2026 the Supreme Court granted the government’s emergency stay in DHS v. D.V.D. (No. 26A406), pausing a Massachusetts district-court judgment that had blocked third-country removal guidance, treated the application as a cert petition, granted review (No. 26-426), and set December 2026 argument. Justices Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson would have denied the stay.

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