British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is now offering $160 million in ‘assistance’ to the Rwandan President if he illegally enters the UK accepts migrant asylum seekerswhose procedures are carried out there keep them or send them back to their countries of origin. Last year alone, 28,500 people came illegally across the canal – 8,400 more than in 2020. Last week alone, 600 boat migrants came in one day. The British have had enough, the political pressure on Johnson is increasing. Home Secretary Priti Patel traveled to Rwanda last week and signed the deal, which has been heavily criticized by the left-wing Labor Party.
Brexit promise was a hoax
Johnson started the Brexit vote with a promise to effectively protect his own borders and only let those people into the country who are needed, which was impossible under EU law. The Rwanda deal still has to be approved by parliament. Johnson’s conservative party has a clear majority there. Rwanda is a member of the Commonwealth. With warmer weather and calmer seas, the rush will increase again, Johnson predicted.
The British are generous, but illegal migration places an undue burden on the education, health and welfare systems. “We cannot maintain a parallel illegal system. Our compassion may be infinite, but our capacity to help people is not.”, he said. London wants the royal Send the Navy on patrol in the English Channel and stop migrant boats, which mainly set off from France.
$400,000 for tugs per boat
It is remarkable that seven out of ten illegal boat migrants, last year, were men under 40 and menchen smugglers paid. Women and children who also have asylum claims have therefore been left behind. The whole thing is perverse because these men are not fleeing immediate threats. Before that, they passed through a number of safe countries – mainly in Europe – where they could and should seek asylum.
He referred to the people smugglers as a “gang”. You have to destroy their business model. After all, they deserve up to US$400,000 per migrant boat sent. The boats are often not seaworthy. Traffickers caught could face life in prison, it said. The new plan is also a signal to illegal migrants: In the future, you risk ending up in Rwanda instead of Great Britain.
British anger about luxury quarters
According to British authorities, From January 1, 2023, all adults who do not meet the immigration criteria will be flown out to Rwanda on charter flights. However, children and unaccompanied minors are exempt from this rule. It is said that families are not torn apart either. Asylum seekers who meet the criteria can submit their application in the country and await their procedure. You will, however no longer accommodated in hotels as before, but in abandoned military accommodation.
Because of massive migratory rush in the past year – despite the pandemic – there was one Shortage of accommodation. To the annoyance of many Brits, they landed Asylum seekers also in high-quality hotels. It happened that existing bookings had to be canceled because of this. Home Secretary Priti Patel came under massive public pressure. She traveled to Rwanda last week and signed the million dollar deal with Rwanda.
British plan nothing new
Britain is not the only country with such plans. Denmark also explored possibilities for a “migration agreement” with Rwanda last year. Israel tried under a pilot programillegally entered migrants from Eritrea with cash payments and a one-way ticket to Rwanda. The EU would also actually be in agreement with the Libyan coast guard that migrant boats in the Mediterranean to be sent back to Africa. In 2019, ex-US President Donald Trump 900 asylum seekers to Guatemala, Biden ended this program. Johnson is confident his model will soon too applicable internationally come.
Relevant NGOs are arming themselves
The left Opposition (Labour Party) criticized the project as “unworkable, unethical and oppressive”. Britain will spend billions of dollars on it, similar to Australia, which “ships” illegal boat migrants to “asylum processing centers” on the islands of Manus and Nauru. Australia renewed this agreement with Nauru last year. Activists from asylum NGOs are already warning alleged violations of human rights the migrants.
Johnson also admitted that one likely to put “legal obstacles” in the way of his plans. But what he intends to do is neither “draconian nor without compassion”, it is much worse when people drown in the canal. Johnson called Rwanda one of the safest countries in the world. Human rights lawyers in Africa disagree. There are reports that critics of Kagame’s policies are being arbitrarily arrested and mistreated or even disappear.
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