The UK government's interior minister visits the Rwandan estate where asylum seekers will be deported to under a new plan, as thousands protest the immigration bill in London.
She spoke to journalists at a news conference attended by Rwanda's Foreign Minister Vincent Biruta, who also defended the agreement signed between the two countries.The UK's Conservative government has made tackling illegal immigration a priority, and it was a key promise as the country left the European Union.
It is seeking to outlaw asylum claims by asylum seekers who arrive illegally and transfer them to "safe" third countries, such as Rwanda, in a bid to stop thousands of migrants from crossing the Channel on small boats.'Safe passage, not Rwanda' More than 45,000 migrants arrived on the shores of south-east England on small boats in 2022 — a 60-percent annual increase on a perilous route that has been used by more people every year since 2018.
The UK government, which is trailing in opinion polls, has been striving for years to tackle the crossings.It had hoped the threat of a one-way ticket to Rwanda, where migrants would remain if accepted for asylum, would deter the cross-Channel journeys. But that plan, announced by the then-prime minister Boris Johnson last year, was blocked at the last minute by the European Court of Human Rights , which is separate to the EU.
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