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PM Boriss' Rwanda Plan For Immigration to BEAT Vile People Smugglers
PM Boriss' Plan For Illegal Immigration Rwanda Deal to BEAT Vile People Smugglers
Vile People Smugglers are Turning The Channel Into a Watery Graveyard.
One-Way Ticket to Rwanda For Thousands of Asylum Seekers Entering The UK
---Some asylum seekers who cross the Channel to the UK will be given a one-way ticket to Rwanda, under new government plans. It will see asylum seekers flown more than 5,000 miles to Rwanda to have their asylum claims processed in an "offshore" facility.
BBC News 14 APR 2022.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the £120m schemewould "save countless lives" from human trafficking.
The trial will involve mostly single men arriving on boats or lorries.
Refugee organisations have criticised the plan as cruel, questioned its cost and impact, and raised concerns about Rwanda's human rights record.
In a speech in Kent, Mr Johnson argued action was needed to stop "vile people smugglers" turning the ocean into a "watery graveyard", adding the "humane and compassionate" plan was designed to break their business model.
He said he wanted to make clear to people arriving on the Kent coast they were better off taking legal routes and that the new plan would "over time prove a very considerable deterrent".
Last year, 28,526 people are known to have crossed in small boats, up from 8,404 in 2020.
Around 600 people made the crossing on Wednesday, and Mr Johnson said the figure could reach 1,000 a day within weeks.
Mr Johnson said the scheme would be uncapped, affect those who arrived illegally since 1 January, and potentially involve tens of thousands in the coming years.
The BBC has seen accommodation the asylum seekers will be housed in, thought to have enough space for around 100 people at a time and to process up to 500 a year.
"We cannot sustain a parallel illegal system," the prime minister said. "Our compassion may be infinite, but our capacity to help people is not."
Recent research by Ipsos Mori suggested 60% of the public were dissatisfied with the government's migration policy - more than half of which cited Channel crossings.
Graph showing numbers of people crossing the English Channel between 2019 and 2022
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