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Britain’s immigration minister Suella Braverman said that people who arrive by unauthorized means in Britain should not be allowed to claim asylum in the U.K. Some of the asylum seekers will be sent to Rwanda while processing their papers
Britain’s immigration minister Suella Baverman said that people who arrive by unauthorized means to Britain should not be allowed to claim asylum in the U.K. Some of the asylum seekers will be sent to Rwanda while processing their papers,
She acknowledged that because of the policy’s legal challenge, it was unlikely anyone would be deported to the east African country Rwanda this year. It may be recalled that in April this year, Britain and Rwanda signed an agreement to the effect that Britain can send some migrants who arrive in the U.K. as stowaways or in small boats to Rwanda. They will stay there till their asylum claims are processed. Those granted asylum would stay in the African country rather than return to the U.K.
The British government feels that the policy will act as a deterrent for people-trafficking gangs who ferry migrants across the English Channel. However, human rights groups say it is unworkable and inhumane to send people thousands of miles away to a country they don’t want to live in.
Braverman said she would make the Rwanda policy work and was seeking to strike similar agreements with other countries. The above move to deport people who are coming to Britain, the British government feels would stop people who arrive in the country illegally. At the same time, people who are coming through established refugee programs can be allowed in. According to the proposed law, which needs changes in the existing one, will have provisions for sending back people who deliberately enter the U.K. illegally from a safe country, either to their home country or Rwanda.
There are people who are criticising this move saying that it was a blatant violation of human rights, brutal and barbaric. Britain has already paid Rwanda 120 million pounds (US$145 million). But no one has been sent there as part of the deal because the European Court of Human Rights ruled that the plan carried “a real risk of irreversible harm.” The deportation, Britain had to call off at the last moment. Braverman was critical of the order of the European Court, mentioning that foreign court should not undermine the sovereignty of the British borders.
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Several asylum-seekers, aid groups, and a border officials’ union took legal action against the government in the British courts. The first hearing is due later this month.
