Europe looks set to clamp down on migrants even further. A new E.U. Pact on Migration and Asylum, a major overhaul being hammered out , is due to come into force next year and will harden border procedures, accelerate deportations, and much else.

U.S. President Donald Trump and MAGA figures frequently warn that Europe has lost control of migration. But the facts are very different. Over the past decade, the continent has built a big, largely invisible fortress —one that carries enormous economic and moral risks. Member states have tightened asylum procedures , struck deals with transit countries including Turkey , Libya , Tunisia , and Egypt , and deployed more surveillance technology than ever before.

And this has yielded results. Across the continent, irregular cr

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