Soviet officials organized their wartime deportation policy largely along ethnic lines.

This move follows the Obama administration's decision to create a new deportation policy that amounts to a backdoor amnesty.

The United States and others have said the deportation policy is a violation of the Geneva Convention of 1949.

The government's deportation policy had been suspended in mid-1989 under strong pressure from the United States.

Higgins remains an opponent of the deportation policy.

Some other states' early deportation policies are more restrictive.

We need a common migration policy, not just a common deportation policy.

This will put an end to the arbitrary deportation policy pursued by some Member States and strengthens the rule of law.

In the future, the European Commission will be able to block an effective deportation policy and, in so doing, it will far overstep its authority.

All the Union countries should therefore make radical changes to their deportation policy.