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We're not going to Rwanda! Migrants who have spent months waiting to make the perilous Channel crossing to Britain say they will stay in Calais
dailymail ^ | 22 April 2022 | By LEWIS PENNOCK FOR THE DAILY MAIL

Posted on 04/23/2022 2:02:30 AM PDT by RandFan

On a dusty road on the industrial outskirts of Calais, a small group of Iranian migrants in tents are taking in news of the UK’s Rwanda asylum plan.

The dozen men, mostly in their 20s and 30s, have spent months waiting for an opportunity to make the perilous crossing of the Channel to reach Britain. Some have already tried and failed.

But since the announcement that migrants who succeed will be met with a one-way ticket to Rwanda, they have changed their minds.

Standing beside a row of shabby, small shelters amid a hum from massive industrial units and passing lorries, Hamid Karimi, 34, sums it up: ‘I’m not going to the UK if afterwards I’m sent to Rwanda. I’m staying here. I’m not going to Rwanda.’

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So the policy is working then...?
1 posted on 04/23/2022 2:02:30 AM PDT by RandFan
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To: RandFan

Dear “Migrants” - That was the entire point.


2 posted on 04/23/2022 2:20:09 AM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: RandFan

Good to see the Brits copy Australia’s policy on this. In Australia, if you manage to illegally come then you don’t get to stay in Australia, you’re off to Papua New Guinea or Nauru.


3 posted on 04/23/2022 2:36:32 AM PDT by Dundee (They gave up all their tomorrows for our today's.)
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To: Dundee

The policy is a week old and it’s already putting them off...😂


4 posted on 04/23/2022 2:47:43 AM PDT by RandFan
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To: RandFan

Read the article, and they’re from Rwanda?? My, things change everywhere.


5 posted on 04/23/2022 2:51:19 AM PDT by sumuam
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To: RandFan

I don’t really think they are from Rwanda, unless they forged papers.


6 posted on 04/23/2022 2:54:35 AM PDT by sumuam
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To: RandFan

7 posted on 04/23/2022 3:19:28 AM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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To: sumuam

“Read the article, and they’re from Rwanda?? My, things change everywhere.”

Nope, they’re Iranians and obviously have no intention of going to Rwanda. My question is what’s so bad about Europe, plenty of welfare states, starting with Sweden, that would welcome them with open arms.


8 posted on 04/23/2022 3:35:46 AM PDT by BobL (Putin isn't sending gays into our schools to groom my children, but anti-Putin people are)
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To: RandFan
The policy is a week old

As yet it's still unborn...still struggling to get through Parliament.

9 posted on 04/23/2022 3:46:42 AM PDT by Winniesboy
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To: BobL

Nope, they’re Iranians and obviously have no intention of going to Rwanda. My question is what’s so bad about Europe, plenty of welfare states, starting with Sweden, that would welcome them with open arms.


I was thinking they’re Libyans. Or maybe, Iranians or Iraqis. Not too much in the news about them, lately. Al Qaeda was having a field day after Libya fell over 10 years ago, so who knows how many Al Qaida terrorists are migrating to Europe. A lot of the black slaves ran away to Europe the past 10 or so years, later.


10 posted on 04/23/2022 3:54:01 AM PDT by sumuam
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To: sumuam
Al Qaida terrorists are migrating to Europe.

I wonder how many are migrating to America?

11 posted on 04/23/2022 4:30:09 AM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. USAF aviation runs in the family )
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To: sumuam
On that note...

Yorkshire locals accuse Priti Patel of 'dropping a bomb' on rural village as they face being outnumbered by 1,500 young male asylum seekers

Young, military-age males from Iran, Iraq, Syria.

That's an invasion.

12 posted on 04/23/2022 4:38:35 AM PDT by mewzilla (We need to repeal RCV wherever it's in use and go back to dumb voting machines.)
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To: RandFan
Funny how "migrants" and "refugees" insist that they can choose the country that they go to.

I hope every one of these scumbags drowns in the English Channel.

13 posted on 04/23/2022 4:57:17 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Covid Is All About Mail In Ballots)
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To: RandFan

What’s wrong with Rwanda?
All cultures and peoples are equal…


14 posted on 04/23/2022 5:56:49 AM PDT by EEGator
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they should be deported back to wherever they came from.


15 posted on 04/23/2022 5:56:59 AM PDT by ronniesgal (if more folks would mind their own business the world would be a better place.)
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To: BobL

They’re not white, so they don’t belong in Europe.


16 posted on 04/23/2022 5:58:19 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: RandFan

Dear migrants: Fix your own s**t hole countries instead of running away from them.


17 posted on 04/23/2022 6:29:11 AM PDT by jmacusa (America. Founded by geniuses. Now governed by idiots. )
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To: RandFan

Hmm...France or Rwanda? France or Rwanda? That’s a tricky one.


18 posted on 04/23/2022 7:32:10 AM PDT by hanamizu
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To: BobL

They really, really want to get to the UK because once they are there they have “made” it:

Free house off a local authority (I kid you not)

Free healthcare

Flexible labor force especially for low skilled workers. if they have a trade then they have struck gold.

English language / culture.

Various other benefits.

This is the reason why they make the perilous journey


19 posted on 04/23/2022 12:03:00 PM PDT by RandFan
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