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    UK to give asylum seekers one-way ticket to Rwanda

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    BBC – Some asylum seekers who arrive in the UK on small boats across the Channel will be given a one-way ticket to Rwanda, under new government plans.

    Home Secretary Priti Patel is in the African nation to agree a £120m trial involving mostly single men arriving in Britain on boats or lorries.

    Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the scheme was needed to “save countless lives” from human trafficking.

    Refugee organisations have criticised the plans as cruel and urged a rethink.

    In a speech in Kent, Mr Johnson argued action is needed to stop “vile people smugglers” turning the ocean into a “watery graveyard”, added the the plan was designed to break their business model.

    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 and Rwanda could process tens of thousands of claims 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.”

    Line graph showing numbers of people crossing the English Channel between 2019 and 2022

    Labour said the plan was “unworkable, unethical and extortionate” – the Lib Dems said it would be expensive and ineffective.

    Opponents have also said the annual cost of the full scheme would be far higher than the initial £120m payment and raised concerns about Rwanda’s human rights record.

    BBC home editor Mark Easton, reporting from Rwanda, explained ministers face legal hurdles and substantial costs to launch the scheme.

    Precise details of the plan are yet to be confirmed, but, he said the trial would be restricted to mostly single men the British authorities believe are inadmissible.

    Under the proposal, Rwanda would take responsibility for the people who make the more than 4,000 mile journey, put them through an asylum process, and at the end of that process, if they are successful, they will have long-term accommodation in Rwanda.

    The Rwandan government said migrants will be “entitled to full protection under Rwandan law, equal access to employment, and enrolment in healthcare and social care services”.

    The UK Home Office believes existing asylum law will be enough to implement the plan, but questions remain about the legality of the scheme.

    Map showing the distance from the UK to Rwanda

    Questions have also been raised over the human rights record of the Rwandan government and its president, Paul Kagame.

    A number of his critics have been killed, or been subject to assassination attempts, but Rwanda has always dismissed suggestions its government was involved.

    Concerns have also been raised over the conviction of Paul Rusesabagina – the subject of Hollywood film Hotel Rwanda about his role saving more than 1,000 people during Rwanda’s 1994 genocide – on terrorism charges.

    Last year, the UK government itself expressed concern over “continued restrictions to civil and political rights and media freedom” in Rwanda at the United Nations, calling for independent investigations into “allegations of extrajudicial killings, deaths in custody, enforced disappearances and torture”.

    Priti Patel getting in Kigali, Rwanda
    SOURCE,PA MEDIA Home Secretary Priti Patel has arrived in Rwanda, which is part of the Commonwealth, to sign the dea

    The prime minister also announced plans to hand operational control of the Channel to the navy, break the business model of people-smuggling gangs, and deter people from risking the crossing.

    He also announced £50m in funding for new equipment and specialist personal to help achieve this.

    The measures are part of the government’s long-term plan to “take back control of illegal immigration” after Brexit, Mr Johnson said.

    While the number of people crossing the Channel in boats has increased, last year saw fewer people using other routes – such as by lorry – in part because of increased security at the Port of Calais.

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    A hugely controversial plan

    Analysis box by Mark Easton, home editor

    The partnership with Rwanda is the centrepiece of a wider policy blitz to deal with what has been a humiliation for ministers who promised Brexit would mean control of Britain’s borders.

    Instead, record numbers of asylum seekers have been turning up in dinghies beneath the white cliffs of Dover. This year has already seen 4,578 arrivals and looks set to be a new record.

    Sending asylum seekers to Rwanda, however, is likely to prove hugely controversial and legally fraught.

    Critics point to Rwanda’s poor human rights record. At the UN last year, the UK demanded investigations into alleged killings, disappearances and torture.

    Ministers will have to explain why Rwanda is the right place to entrust with protecting the human rights of vulnerable asylum seekers who hoped the UK would protect them.

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    Powers awaiting approval

    The government’s Nationality and Borders Bill includes a provision to create offshore immigration processing centres for asylum seekers.

    The bill is making its way through Parliament, but with the parliamentary session expected to end within weeks, time is running out to pass it into law.

    MPs are currently on a break, but when they return, they are due to review a series of amendments, including one about powers to offshore asylum claims.

    The government has suffered a series of defeats in the House of Lords over the bill, which has come in for criticism and sparked protests.

    Labour and the SNP have opposed offshoring asylum claims, and the UN’s high commissioner for refugees said the practice “would be a breach of the UK’s international obligations”.

    The plan to process asylum seekers abroad was first reported by the Times newspaper last year.

    The newspaper said the Home Office had discussed the proposals with their counterparts in Denmark, which has passed legislation allowing it to relocate asylum seekers to countries outside Europe.

    Human rights campaigners have highlighted the negative impact on refugee human rights, the cost of the scheme, and have questioned whether it will achieve its aims.

    Enver Solomon, chief executive of the Refugee Council, said the proposal would not address the reasons why desperate people travel to the UK.

    Amnesty International UK described the plan as “shockingly ill-conceived idea” which would inflict further suffering and waste “huge amounts” of public money.

    Shadow culture secretary Lucy Powell said “we all want to see an end to the illegal crossings”, but that Labour advocates “boring measures” like curbs on people smugglers.

    Alistair Carmichael, home affairs spokesperson for the Liberal Democrats, said: “Thousands of families are opening their homes to refugees, but this Conservative government is slamming the door in their face.”

    The SNP Westminster leader, Ian Blackford, described the idea of sending “vulnerable people” to Rwanda as “absolutely chilling”.

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