The Conservative government seeks to reduce numbers of people arriving to the UK on small boats [file/GETTY] The UK government considered sending asylum seekers to Iraq in a programme like its Rwanda-scheme despite its own foreign office advising against travel there. Government documents seen by Sky News revealed that the government wanted to process asylum...
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Rwanda Bill ignores history, isn’t humane
The United Kingdom (UK) has codified the xenophobic tendencies of a section of its citizens into legislation. Under the Rwanda Bill, refugees deemed to have entered the UK illegally will be deported to Rwanda, against payments from the former to house them for “processing”. Even if their asylum requests are found to be genuine, they...
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‘Can’t give them jobs’: Rwandans grapple with fears over UK asylum plan
Kigali, Rwanda – Lush hills draped in verdure belie the controversies surrounding two locations in Kigali that may soon host hundreds of people who had no plans of ever living in Rwanda. In northern Kigali, Hope Hostel sits on a hill overlooking the capital. Across town in the southwest sits the Bwiza Riverside Estate, where...