Peter Walsh
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“If only a very small proportion can be moved, the deterrent may be much less credible.”
Peter Walsh · said 2026-10-02 · reported 2026-10-02
Walsh said that if only a small proportion of migrants can be moved, the deterrent effect is less credible.
“One lesson may be that European governments should expect litigation, even where the third country looks considerably less controversial than Rwanda,”
Peter Walsh · said 2026-10-02 · reported 2026-10-02
Walsh told CBS News on Friday that European governments should expect litigation over third-country deportation schemes.
“It may relocate some of those difficulties geographically, but governments still have to deal with courts, individual rights, administrative capacity, countries that may not cooperate with returns, and substantial costs”
Peter Walsh · said 2026-10-02 · reported 2026-10-02
Walsh said externalization may relocate difficulties geographically but governments still face courts, individual rights, administrative capacity, uncooperative countries, and substantial costs.
“These policies are often justified as deterrence measures, and that assumes a sufficiently large share of people believe there is a realistic chance they will actually be transferred,”
Peter Walsh · said 2026-10-02 · reported 2026-10-02
Walsh said deterrence-based deportation policies assume a large share of people believe they could actually be transferred.
“The broader lesson from Rwanda is that externalization is not a shortcut around the difficult parts of migration policy,”
Peter Walsh · said 2026-10-02 · reported 2026-10-02
Walsh said the broader lesson from the U.K.'s Rwanda program is that externalization is not a shortcut around difficult migration policy issues.