How Red Flags Were Brushed Aside To Push The Rwanda Deal Forward Immigration And Asylum
Rumors have circulated for months about the controversial plans, but nothing has come of previous Home Office ideas, both confirmed and unconfirmed, to stop the growing number of asylum seekers arriving in the UK on small boats, including wave machines in the English Channel and a turn around boats policy. While the government was undoubtedly under political pressure from the huge increase in crossings – more than 25,000 so far this year – the policy of exporting asylum seekers from one of the world’s richest countries to one of the world’s poorest countries, 4,000 miles away, was so radical that no other country had attempted anything similar....