Criticism of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson continues after ‘Partygate’ scandal. On Thursday it was announced that people who want to apply for asylum in Britain will have to wait in Rwanda for approval in the future. A corresponding agreement was signed today. Critics speak of “impossible, unethical and excessive plans”.
British Home Secretary Priti Patel signed an asylum agreement with Rwanda on Thursday, the government in London announced. In detail, male migrants will be flown to the East African country upon arrival in the UK and await the decision on their asylum application. London is making £120 million (about 145 million euros) available for a pilot project. On the other hand, those in Britain who can wait for a decision in the future must be placed in tightly controlled reception camps.
“abuse systems”
The new agreement aims to deter economic migrants and discourage people from making the perilous journey across the English Channel. “We need to ensure that the only route to asylum in the UK is safe and legal,” Johnson said on Thursday. Anyone who tries to “skip the queue or abuse our systems” must be taken “quickly and humanely” to a third country or country of origin.
The British Prime Minister had already defended his plan in advance. Too often criminals take advantage of the hopes and dreams of migrants. “These despicable people smugglers are abusing those in need of protection and turning the Channel into a watery graveyard where men, women and children drown in unseaworthy boats and freeze to death in refrigerated trucks,” Johnson said in a statement.
Negative pressure
Johnson and especially Home Secretary Patel are under a lot of pressure in their Conservative party because of the “small boat crisis”, as illegal migration is called in Britain. Thousands of people are still reaching the country from France in small boats, despite promises to cut immigration significantly with Brexit. Patel tried time and again to satisfy the hardliners with radical proposals. For example, there were shelters for asylum seekers who were far away, which were rejected by many countries, and that the coast guard could push the inflatable boats of the refugees back to the open side.
criticism from human rights activists
Criticism of the agreement with Rwanda comes mainly from the opposition and human rights activists. Labor called Prime Minister Johnson’s plans “impracticable, unethical and blackmail”. The Detention Action organization said the men sent to Africa “are likely to be held indefinitely under a government notorious for violently persecuting dissidents”. In addition, a warning is issued for the rejection of barely seaworthy boats on the open sea.
Source: Krone
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