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If 42 days detention was wrong, how about 548?

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A new directive allowing EU states to detain immigrants for 18 months makes Britain's new anti-terrorism laws seem liberal. Members of the European Parliament backed the so-called 'return directive', which allows the 27 EU member states to hold undocumented migrants in detention centres for up to 18 months and to ban them from re-entering EU territory for five years. The draft law allows children to be detained, too.

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