Another failure of Sunak’s anti-immigration plan in the British House of Lords

According to the international group Tasnim news agency, the controversial agreement The British government’s refugee deal with Rwanda has suffered another defeat in the House of Lords. On Monday, the British House of Lords defeated the plans of the British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. The vote for the conservative head of government was in parliament a year and a half into his presidency. Whether it is or not.

Britain wants to declare Rwanda a safe third country under the law so that there is no longer a possibility of appeal in British courts for refugees. Now the members of the House of Lords have voted, among other things, on an amendment that requires Rwanda to fully implement the promised guarantees before the East African country can be considered safe.

UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak plans to immediately deport all people entering the UK without the necessary documents, regardless of personal circumstances, to Rwanda. The purpose of this work is to prevent immigrants from crossing the English Channel in small boats and irregular entry into the country and to reduce immigration. Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury from Sunak He criticized the plan for questioning international laws. Christopher Stimhat, a conservative member of the British Parliament, also accused the government of authoritarian tendencies. According to him, if this law is passed, Rwanda will always be considered a safe country, even if the reality seems different. On the other hand, Michael Howard, the former leader of the Conservative Party, said that the decision on safe third countries is up to the government, not the courts. declared illegal. So, the government has come up with a new law to bypass the London High Court. The British government wants to send the first migrants to Rwanda in the spring. They have to apply for asylum there. There are no plans for them to return to England. Critics consider this project a symbolic move at the expense of taxpayers to win over conservative voters before the upcoming parliamentary elections. Based on the very high costs of the Rwandan anti-immigration agreement, he continued to defend this plan and emphasized the need to implement it in order to deal with the influx of immigrants. The controversial asylum deal to deport illegal immigrants to Rwanda has cost British taxpayers up to half a billion pounds (584 million euros), significantly more than previously announced.

The British Conservative government has so far approved £290 million in spending on the project, but declined to say how much more money London has given to Rwanda. The opposition reacted angrily to these assessments.

This bill presented by the British government specifies that immigrants who have entered the country irregularly can In the future, they will be sent from the UK to Rwanda, which is classified as a safe third country, without their asylum applications being examined. The British government hopes that this will have a deterrent effect on the influx of migrants. An agreement has already been concluded with the government of Rwanda.

Opponents of this project, such as the United Nations Refugee Agency, are angry with this British law. Critics believe that there is no legal route for asylum seekers to enter this country. These plans also violate obligations related to the protection of refugees, according to critics. The fact that the government wants to place itself above the decisions of the Constitutional Court by this law also violates the separation of powers.

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