The British government plans to start traveling with deported migrants to Rwanda from July, as announced by British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.
Authorities from great Britain has begun detaining asylum seekers who will be deported to Rwanda under a new immigration law approved in April by the country’s Parliament.
According to British Home Secretary James Cleverly, the first flight is expected to take off in “nine to eleven weeks”. The Conservative Party leader has framed these efforts as part of London’s “pioneering response” to the “global challenge of illegal migration.” “We have worked tirelessly to pass new and strong legislation to implement it,” he said.
The new policy revolves around an agreement signed with Rwanda, which is classified as a “safe country.” The UK Supreme Court canceled the previous deportation project in 2023 and Human Rights organizations, including the UN, questioned this second attempt on the grounds that it did not guarantee the basic rights and freedoms of asylum seekers.
However, British authorities defended the legality and feasibility of the new program, with the aim of reducing migrant arrivals across the English Channel. “Stop the boats and destroy the business model of gangs that traffic in people,” Cleverly said Wednesday in a department statement.
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