On migration, Greece takes a Trumpian turn • The lengthy incarceration of irregular migrants could soon be the new norm.

Decrying an “invasion” of illegal migrants — and praising the crackdown in the United States under President Donald Trump — Greek authorities are unfurling one of the most radical plans in Europe to stamp out irregular migration.

The new Greek “model” is playing out behind a 10-foot fence topped with barbed wire on the edge of metropolitan Athens, where imprisoned migrants describe conditions befitting an Aegean Alcatraz. Black-clad guards patrol the perimeter of the detention center here, where migrants recently rescued at sea are treated like criminals, according to human rights lawyers.

As Greece acts to halt an uptick in arrivals, irregular migrants landing from the North African coast since mid-July have faced summary incarceration during a three-month suspension of the right to asylum, a period authorities say could be extended and that critics call a violation of international treaties and conventions.

Rescued migrants are being housed inside makeshift quarters in metal containers, migrants and lawyers say.

Insects crawl near discolored mattresses in units housing as many as 10 migrants at a time. Toilets have no lids and some, no doors. Air conditioners are breaking down at the height of the Greek summer, when temperatures regularly surge into the 90s, according to interviews and videos of the facility shared by migrants.

Greek officials declined a request to visit the detention camp and did not respond to a request for comment on the alleged conditions.

For Greece, a gateway into the 27-member European Union, the lengthy incarceration of irregular migrants could soon be the new norm. Under a sweeping law introduced as deterrence — and likely to be approved in the coming weeks — migrants could again apply for asylum. But instead of being freed into open camps where they would have some ability to come and go while their cases are adjudicated — as happened previously — they would be held inside closed prisons like the one in Amygdaleza.

Successful applicants would be released. But those rejected — a rate now running at more than 50 percent — would confront a hard choice: voluntarily deportation or potential jail sentences of two to five years, as well as fines of up to 10,000 euros ($11,600), if convicted of illegal entry and stay.

Greek officials are citing President Donald Trump’s aggressive immigration crackdown as one inspiration.

“I think that the policy of President Trump is a good policy,” said Thanos Plevris, Greece’s new migration minister, adding that it would have been “very difficult” for the Greek government to roll out its new plan if Washington and other countries in Europe weren’t also taking a harder line.

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> Την ακροδεξιά στροφή της χώρας μας στη διαχείριση του μεταναστευτικού μελετά σε ρεπορτάζ της η Washinghton Post. Από το νέο νομοθετικό πλαίσιο, στις φυλακές μεταναστών του Αιγαίου.

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Δεν μπορείς να συγκρίνεις τις δύο περιπτώσεις. Η Αμερική είναι ένα κράτος το οποίο από τη δημιουργία του βασίζεται σχεδον πλήρως στην μετανάστευση. Διαθέτουν όντως προγράμματα που επιτρέπουν σε Μεξικανούς υπήκοους να εγκατασταθούν στη χώρα νόμιμα και να ενσωματωθούν όπως έχουν κάνει για παράδειγμα πολλοί Αλβανοί στην Ελλάδα που πλέον πολλές φορές δεν μπορείς να τους διακρίνεις κιόλας από έναν Έλληνα. Ο λαθρομετανάστης που έρχεται παράνομα στις περισσότερες φορές ο ίδιος δεν θέλει να ενσωματωθεί και δεν κυνηγάει μία καλύτερη ζωή.

Νομίζω είναι ΞΕΚΑΘΑΡΟ πως αυτό που πρέπει να κάνουμε είναι να πληρώνουμε ξενοδοχεία για να μένουν εκεί!