The British government plans to start traveling with deported migrants to Rwanda from July, as announced by the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Rishi Sunak.
The authorities of United Kingdom have started detaining asylum seekers who will be deported to Rwanda under the new immigration law approved by that country’s parliament in April.
The first flights are expected to depart within “nine to eleven weeks”, according to British Home Secretary James Cleverly. The Conservative leader has framed these efforts as part of a “pioneering response” from London to the “global challenge of illegal migration.” “We have worked tirelessly to pass a new and strong law to implement it,” he said.
This new policy revolves around a treaty signed with Rwanda, classified as ‘a safe country’. The UK Supreme Court quashed the previous deportation project in 2023 and human rights groups, including the UN, have questioned this second attempt on the grounds that it does not guarantee the fundamental rights and freedoms of asylum seekers.
However, British authorities defend both the legality and appropriateness of this new program, which aims to reduce the arrival of migrants across the English Channel. “Stop the boats and break the business model of human trafficking gangs,” Cleverly emphasized in his department’s statement on Wednesday.
Source: EITB
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