The British justice rejected on Mondayon the eve of the first scheduled flight, two urgent appeals against the controversial plan of the government of Boris Johnson to send illegally arrived migrants and asylum seekers to the UK to Rwanda.
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On Tuesday, a plane is to transport to that African country, located 7,000 km from London and with a worrying balance in terms of human rights, the first 8 expelled within the framework of this plan devised to discourage the incessant arrivals of illegal immigrants to the country.
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This arrangement is not correct at all for many reasons.
After a first approval on Friday by the High Court of London to the plan, a union of immigration agents and NGOs Care4Calais and Detention Action – along with several asylum seekers – attempted a second last-minute appeal on Monday against what they consider an “illegal policy”.
Another NGO that helps refugees, Asylum Aid, also presented his own action in justice. However, like Friday, the court again dismissed his arguments, giving the green light to the executive.
Almost in parallel, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Filippo Grandi, strongly condemned the project.
Criticism of Prince Charles
Despite the general approval of the plan by the courts, the presentation of individual appeals on a case-by-case basis did manage to reduce the scale of the measure.
Of the 31 candidates for expulsion registered last week – including Syrians, Iranians, Iraqis, Egyptians and Afghans who fled the Taliban – “23 people have had their tickets to Rwanda canceled” and “eight are still due to leave tomorrow,” he tweeted. Care4Calais.The British government negotiated this plan a few months ago with Rwanda, which already has a hotel ready to accommodate about 100 migrants.
BREAKING: Two more Rwanda sports have had their tickets cancelled.
Twenty three people have now had their Rwanda tickets cancelled. Eight still have live tickets for tomorrow.
— Care4Calais (@Care4Calais) June 13, 2022
Its authorities must initially receive 120 million pounds (157 million dollars, 144 million euros) to welcome them and “give them a legal path to residence” so that they can “settle permanently, if they so wish.” “, according to the foreign minister of the African country, Vincent Biruta.
London’s goal with this system is to discourage migrant crossings from French shores. So far this year, more than 10,000 have arrived in the country illegally by crossing the English Channel in precarious boats, one of the busiest sea routes in the world.
The criminal groups that endanger the lives of people in the English Channel must understand that their business model will collapse under this government.
“But what we are trying to do is stop the business model of criminal gangs that take advantage of people by taking them across the English Channel in unsafe boats, risking their lives,” said Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
The prime minister must participate from June 20 in Rwanda in a meeting of the commonwealththe British Commonwealth made up of 54 countries.
There he is due to meet President Paul Kagame, who has ruled the country since the end of the 1994 genocide in which 800,000 people died, and whose government is regularly accused of suppressing free speech and political opposition.
Also participating in the meeting will be Prince Charles, the 73-year-old heir to the British throne, who according to the newspaper The Times on Saturday he privately called Johnson’s plan “appalling.”
The NGOs fear especially for asylum seekers LGTBQ +, after the British Ministry of the Interior itself admitted its “concerns” about the treatment reserved for sexual and gender minorities in that African country.
“We are extremely disappointed, because we still don’t know if this process is legal,” he told the network. BBC Mark Serwotkageneral secretary of the PCS union, which groups more than 80% of the employees of the British customs system.
The union, along with two non-governmental organizations, had appealed to the courts to try to immediately freeze flights to Rwanda.
The migrants concerned are “overwhelmed with shock and despair,” Clare Moseley, founder of Care4Calais, said on Friday.
“Many came to the UK believing it was a good place that would treat them more fairly than the countries they fled“, he added. Migration control was one of the main issues in the campaign in favor of Brexit, which brought Johnson to power.
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*With information from EFE and AFP
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