Posted on 04/23/2024 1:49:32 PM PDT by RandFan
After months of delay, parliamentary bickering and legal challenges, Rishi Sunak's Rwanda bill is set to become law.
Sunak's promise to "stop the boats" is one of five pledges he has staked his premiership on.
Key to this is the Rwanda scheme, which would involve some asylum seekers being sent to Rwanda to have their asylum claims processed there.
If successful, they can be allowed to stay in Rwanda or seek asylum in another country. But they would not be able to apply to return to the UK.
Ministers say the policy will act as a deterrent to people thinking of travelling to the UK "illegally" (though whether or not crossing the English Channel in a small boat is actually illegal is complicated).
The first plane carrying asylum seekers could take off in 10 to 12 weeks, the prime minister said ahead of the law passing, in what is another delay, having initially promised this would happen in the spring.
This would be more than two years since the first flight attempted under the deal was grounded amid last-minute legal challenges.
No asylum seekers have yet been sent to Rwanda.
While he refused to go into "sensitive" operations details on Monday, Mr Sunak did outline a number of measures the government was taking to prepare for the first flights to take off.
He said there were now 2,200 detention spaces and that 200 dedicated caseworkers had been trained to process claims quickly.
Around 25 courtrooms have been made available and 150 judges will provide 5,000 sitting days, he added.
Mr Sunak also said there were 500 "highly trained individuals ready to escort illegal migrants all the way to Rwanda, with 300 more trained in the coming week".
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One way or another, I feel that the Western world will eventually have to implement a sort of Rwanda Solution.
Why don’t they just ship them back to where they came from... France. If somebody shows up at your border, and they have no business being in your country they get sent back to the country they just came from... That’s what should happen.
Trump should look at the deportation scheme
They wont take them. Rwanda will (for a few hundred million)
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According to the 2012 census, Catholic Christians represented 43.7% of the population, Protestants (excluding Seventh-day Adventists) 37.7%, Seventh-day Adventists 11.8%, and Muslims 2.0%; 0.2% claimed no religious beliefs and 1.3% did not state a religion.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwanda
Hmmm, what do these numbers say about Rwanda? What is the smallest religious group? So why did deportations start with Rwandans? Given the way the UK is heading in the future they might be happy having been sent back.
I wonder what the average Rwanda citizen thinks about this scheme. I’ve not yet seen any media source that is curious enough to investigate.
Better have guards with machine guns at the cockpit doors and handcuff all the deportees to their seats,
“So why did deportations start with Rwandans?”
They are not deporting Rwandans, they are deporting people from other countries to Rwanda in the hope of deterring them from trying to get into the UK.
Ok, so why then does Rwanda have to take in people who aren’t citizens?
That just spreads the problem to other people’s country.
“Ok, so why then does Rwanda have to take in people who aren’t citizens?”
Because the Brits are bribing Rwanda to take them.
Yes a few hundred million...
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