New rules were driven by high numbers of asylum seekers from "safe countries" and the fatigue of voters after waves of migration, European officials say.

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union has moved forward with a vast overhaul of its migration policy, aiming to ramp up deportations and ink controversial deals to build detention centers abroad. Rights groups have criticized it, comparing the new regulations to the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration policies.

EU pushes through migration overhaul with more deportations and detention centres abroad - Critics have likened the new regulations to the immigration policies of the Trump administration

Around 51,000 Indians who came for study reasons, 21,000 for work reasons and 3,000 for other unspecified reasons led the exit trend

Images of rubber dinghies overcrowded with refugees heading for Europe and narratives about mistreatment and exploitation of migrants on unsafe migration routes have come to dominate how African migration is perceived in European public and policy debates.