Challenges facing Sunak to implement Rwanda’s anti-immigration plan

According to the report of the international group Tasnim news agency, newspaper ” In an article, Tagus Anseiger addressed the numerous obstacles to the implementation of the Rwandan anti-immigration plan of Rishi Sunak, the British Prime Minister, which he insists on advancing in a critical election year, and wrote: Rishi Sunak is trying with all his might to complete the project. Move the mass deportation of refugees to Rwanda within a few days. But there are still hurdles.

This follows: British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak appears to be anything but moving the first – even a small group – He does not want refugees to go to Rwanda. London has been preparing to deport unwanted refugees to this East African country for two years, and so far not a single flight has been made to Kigali.

Time is still ticking. Sonak has promised voters that he will threaten Rwanda to stop all “small boats” crossing the English Channel without permission and keep “illegal immigrants” out of the country. But so far this plan has only remained an empty promise. Doubts are growing about the success of Rwanda’s Sonak plan, according to recent polls.

Last weekend alone, approximately 750 migrants crossed the canal by boat. Counting entries over the course of a year, there might be 55,000 new entries, not less than last year, but significantly more.

Conservatives The British had high hopes for their Rwandan plans. This idea, of course, seemed much more radical than anything on this continent. Under the plan, anyone crossing the English Channel without permission was automatically “illegal” and not even eligible to apply for asylum. In this way, the immigrants had to submit their application in Rwanda and were deported from England to this urban African country. According to this plan, they would return from there to Britain for Asylum seekers were impossible. The British government offered hundreds of millions of pounds to the Rwandan government so that it would no longer have to deal with this disturbing issue. First Boris Johnson and then Rishi Sunak put this “British solution” to the immigration problem as an election plan.

However, the protests and Conservative plans have been heavily criticized from the start, and just as the first plane to Rwanda was about to be loaded with refugees in June 2022, the European Court of Human Rights halted the move with a temporary injunction. In November 2023, the UK High Court declared the policy illegal – because, in the judge’s opinion, Rwanda did not provide refugees with “adequate security”.

“Sunak” and His ministers reacted both quickly and angrily to this ruling. In December, they introduced a new “Rwanda Security Act” in the lower house, which was tasked with overturning the court ruling by a parliamentary resolution.

The new law simply stipulated that Rwanda A country is “safe” – regardless of what the courts believe – and planned mass deportations can be carried out regardless of any legal objections. After the judges of the court, representatives of the House of Lords, members of the diverse second chamber of Westminster also objected to this plan. When debating new legislative proposals, these representatives have special vetting rights that can delay the decision-making process and sometimes lead to changes.

Many The lawmakers, who consider the plan deeply unethical, have proposed radical changes in recent weeks. In various ways, they tried to undermine the government’s claim that Rwanda was a “safe country” and that dissent was impossible.

The fact that the government even wanted people who For example, those who fought alongside the British in Afghanistan or supported them in some way to be exiled to Rwanda, provoked strong criticism in the House of Lords. But the Conservative majority in the House of Commons repeatedly rejected the House of Lords’ requests for changes.

And this week, the “parliamentary ping pong game” between the two houses entered its final stage. and in the end there can only be one winner.

UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak believes that he can finally make a final law within days. Present Rwanda to King Charles for signature. This paves the way for mass deportation of asylum seekers. However, there are still obstacles that need to be cleared before deportation is possible.

The government has yet to find an airline willing to fly refugees slated for deportation. Rwanda to transfer. Neither the mainstream airlines nor the state-owned airline Rwanda Air want to be associated with the Rwanda Sonak project for fear of damaging their reputations.

Also. Now, the Rwandan government has clearly stated that it expects this process to proceed very slowly and that it is not ready to accept more than 500 refugees in the first year. In London, there was always talk of tens of thousands of people who could be fired this way.

But the biggest problem could still be Sunak. Refugee organizations and lawyers are preparing requests for a new interim order at the European Court of Human Rights.

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