No more Dunki route to London: why is Rishi Sunak deporting British illegal immigrants to Rwanda? An explainer

(MENAFN – Live Mint) “Imagine an asylum seeker from Afghanistan or a war-torn country taking a dunki route to Britain and somehow managing to cross the English Channel and reach Britain to reach Britain, while hoping for a better life. When he gets there, he will now likely be deported to Rwanda, a small country in Central Africa bordering Uganda and Tanzania.
Something similar is now set to happen in Britain when the ‘Rwanda Asylum Plan’ comes into effect.
On April 30 this year, the first migrant was sent to Rwanda after his asylum application was rejected by Britain. According to the British media, this was the first deportation to Rwanda.
On April 22, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced that his government had booked commercial charter planes and would begin sending asylum seekers to Rwanda within 10 to 12 weeks. READ:
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The Rwanda plan was first proposed in April 2022. This involves moving illegal immigrants for processing. The asylum and resettlement plan is known as a way to stop illegal migration and the current Prime Minister, under the policy of ‘Stop the Boats’, gets the Rwanda plan into action for this, the British government will expel a small number of the most vulnerable refugees include Rwanda and pay a total of £120 million to the African nation. The Rwanda Policy was signed on April 14, 2022 between Rwandan Foreign Minister Vincent Biruta and then British Home Secretary Priti Patel, a British politician of Indian origin, was the problem so far? The first flight for this plan received a green signal from the Supreme Court and was scheduled for June 14, 2022. But thanks to the intervention of the European Court of Human Rights, the combat flight to Rwanda was canceled at the eleventh hour.
Finally, on November 15, 2023, the United Kingdom Supreme Court ruled in favor of the government. The British Parliament subsequently passed a bill Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Act 2024, which overruled the court rulings and declared Rwanda a safe haven. In which country is the British government doing this? This was intended to stop illegal migration and curb the practice of human trafficking. There were several instances where a number of immigrants arrived in boats and refrigerated trucks.
On October 23, 2019, such a truck was intercepted containing 39 illegal immigrants from Vietnam, who had frozen to death in the refrigerated vehicle. This was one of several cases to have come to light in the recent past showing the existence of an organized network of people smugglers who send undocumented people from Asian and African countries to Britain and provide workers for large unorganized market. The case was similar to that of Dover Lorry. Deaths in June 2000 when 58 dead bodies of Chinese nationals were found in a truck in the port city of Dover, England.

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