UK government to send immigrants to RWANDA

BBC ^ | Apr 13 | BBC

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Some asylum seekers who arrive in the UK on small boats across the Channel will be given a one-way ticket to Rwanda, under new government plans.

Home Secretary Priti Patel is in the African nation to sign a deal for a £120m trial involving mostly single men arriving in Britain via crossings.

BBC home editor Mark Easton said ministers face significant legal hurdles and substantial costs.

Refugee organisations have criticised the plans as cruel and urged a rethink.

Labour said the plan was "unworkable, unethical and extortionate" - the Lib Dems said it would be expensive and ineffective.

Precise details of the plan are yet to be confirmed, but, reporting from Rwanda, Mark Easton said the trial would be restricted to mostly single men the British authorities believe are inadmissible.

Under the proposal, Rwanda would take responsibility for them, put them through an asylum process, and at the end of that process, if they are successful, they will have long-term accommodation there.

The Rwandan government said migrants will be "entitled to full protection under Rwandan law, equal access to employment, and enrolment in healthcare and social care services".

The UK Home Office believes existing asylum law will be enough to implement the plan, but questions remain about the legality of the scheme.

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Over half the people of Rwanda are Protestant Christian, the largest sect of which there is Anglicanism. Which means it is hilarious when the Archbishop of Canterbury also objects to them being sent there.

Must be because African Anglicans are very morally conservative, and by sheer numbers they dominate the Anglican communion, including the Church of England and the Episcopalians of North America.

Otherwise, Rwanda is quite underpopulated. About 13m people over 10,000 square miles.