A few days ago, a plan to discourage migrants from crossing the English Channel to the UK in small boats became law after months of wrangling in parliament.
Rwanda “in principle” agreed to accept 5.7 thousand of migrants already in the UK was announced by the Home Office late on Monday.
According to her assessment, the whereabouts of 2,143 of these migrants are known.
Law enforcement agencies will find the rest, Health Secretary Victoria Atkins said Tuesday when asked about the 5,700. deportable people.
“We are expected to relocate this group of people.” […] by the end of the year, she told Sky News. – If someone does not introduce themselves as they should, […] will be found.”
Migrants who arrived in the UK between January 2022 and June last year could have their asylum applications rejected and be moved to Rwanda, the Home Office said.
During the above-mentioned period of one and a half years, more than 57,000 people crossed the English Channel in dead boats. people, according to official statistics.
The figure illustrates the scale of the crackdown on illegal migration, as well as the limits of the government’s controversial plan to send migrants to Rwanda.
Asylum claims for deported migrants will be processed in Kigali under the scheme, which is set to free up hundreds of millions of pounds (euro) for UK taxpayers.
If the request is granted, the migrant will be able to stay in Rwanda.
13 million Populous Rwanda presents itself as one of Africa’s most stable nations and is praised for its modern infrastructure, but rights groups accuse its veteran president, Paul Kagame, of ruling in a climate of fear and stifling dissent and free speech.
UK lawmakers last week passed the Safe Rwanda Act, which obliges British judges to treat the country as a safe third country.
The law follows a UK High Court ruling last year that sending migrants to Rwanda on a one-way ticket is illegal.
The new law also gives asylum decision-makers the power to override parts of international and UK human rights law.
Opposition parties in the UK, United Nations agencies and various rights groups are criticizing this important policy of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s Conservative government.
The prime minister said last week that deportation flights should begin in 10 to 12 weeks.
