"With the adoption of the ‘Return Directive’ in June 2008, EU has intensified the fight against irregular immigration, while still leaving Member States with a wide scope for defining national immigration policies. The result of these policies has been the increased stigmatisation, and even criminalisation, of asylum-seekers and undocumented migrants, and the detention and deportation of immigrants, in flagrant violation of their basic human rights." (Quoted from article)