Comment: The web portal 'EU business' reports that ten UN human rights experts have written to the French Presidency of the EU expressing their concerns over the new rules on illegal immigrants. In their appeal they voiced concerns that the new rules would allow EU states to detain vulnerable groups such as unacompanied children and people who have been trafficked into the EU. In their view alternatives to detention have to be sought out and detention must only be for the shortest possible period of time.

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