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British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s latest effort to send some migrants to Rwanda finally won approval from Parliament. Hours after the approval of the controversial bill, Sunak pledged deportation flights would begin in July.
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s latest effort to send some migrants to Rwanda finally won approval from Parliament. Hours after the approval of the controversial bill, Sunak pledged deportation flights would begin in July.
The parliamentary logjam that had stalled the legislation for two months was finally broken just after midnight when the unelected House of Lords recognized the primacy of the elected House of Commons and dropped the last of its proposed amendments. That has cleared the way for the bill to become law.
Earlier in the day, Sunak held a rare morning press conference to demand that the Lords stop blocking his key proposal for ending the tide of migrants crossing the English Channel in small boats. He promised that both houses of Parliament would remain in session until it was approved.
However, migrant advocates have vowed to continue the fight against it. The government plans to deport to Rwanda some of those who enter the United Kingdom illegally as a deterrent to migrants who risk their lives in leaky, inflatable boats in hopes that they will be able to claim asylum once they reach Britain.
Meanwhile, asylum seekers in the British city of Derby expressed fear and concern after Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s latest effort to send some migrants to Rwanda was finally passed by Parliament.
Among the asylum seekers in Derby, some had already received letters from the Home Office warning that they were at risk of removal to Rwanda. Other asylum seekers said they would never have come to Britain if they knew they would be getting deported to Rwanda.
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The government plans to deport to Rwanda some of those who enter the United Kingdom illegally as a deterrent to migrants. The number of people arriving in Britain on small boats soared to 45,774 in 2022 from just 299 four years earlier.
Both the UN refugee agency and the Council of Europe called for Britain to rethink its plans because of concerns that the legislation undermines human rights protections and fears that it will damage international cooperation on tackling the global migrant crisis.
