Europe’s Border Guards Are Illegally Expelling Refugees
Border guards expelling Syrian refugees after they've already been granted asylum has shown the hollowness of European Union humanitarianism. An expansion of the EU-wide Frontex force will make things even worse.
A van from the German police part of the Frontex force as seen near the Greek-Turkish borders. (Nicolas Economou / NurPhoto via Getty Images)
A young man known in public documents only as Fady has been fighting a battle far harder than anyone his age would normally imagine.
He first came to Europe from Deir az-Zour, Syria, fleeing that country’s civil war. In 2015, German authorities recognized him as a legally protected refugee. Since then, Fady has used his German passport to look for his lost brother, who he believes to be stuck in Greece and who he wishes to bring to Germany.
He has paid dearly for those wishes.
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