The British Parliament passed the controversial law to deport immigrants to Rwanda

According to the report of the international group Tasnim news agency quoting The British House of Commons has approved a controversial law to deport migrants to Rwanda, despite opposition within the party, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper reported. This vote was seen as an important test for British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. Plans to declare Rwanda a safe third country and allow illegal immigrants to be deported there passed the House of Commons without any changes. 320 of the 349 members of his faction voted for the proposal. 276 opposition MPs voted against the bill. Labor was upheld and could have more broadly repealed the provisions of the European Convention on Human Rights, ignored. Many members of this faction, who expressed their displeasure with this Sunak plan, finally voted for this bill, which is now being discussed in the House of Lords.

The new law allows British authorities to deport migrants who enter the country illegally, usually crossing the English Channel in rubber dinghies, to Rwanda without an asylum check. The first such plan failed due to a London High Court ruling that Rwanda should not be considered a safe third country. Awer signed with Rwanda in which the East African country pledged to accept and continue to host an unspecified number of migrants sent there from Britain.

The new “Rwanda Security” law stipulates that responsible ministers no longer have to strictly adhere to the initial orders of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg on the deportation of migrants to Rwanda. The first attempt by then Prime Minister Boris Johnson to organize a deportation flight to Rwanda in April 2022 failed because of such an interim order from the Human Rights Court. The tougher reforms, tabled by right-wing Tory MPs, would have stipulated, among other things, that UK officials would be legally barred from following Strasbourg’s orders.

Several The former British minister, like former home secretary Sula Braverman and immigration minister Robert Genrick, who resigned about a month ago, argued that only with these escalating measures can deportations to Rwanda finally begin. Their opponents within the party, such as former Attorney General Jeremy Wright, argued that the British Parliament had the right to pass laws that breached international law such as the European Convention on Human Rights, but that doing so would cause serious political damage – Because this action provides reasons for exonerating countries like Russia if they themselves have violated international agreements. Rishi Sunak, who had been appointed to these positions, resigned from their positions so that they could vote for stricter amendments to the Rwanda bill. The “rebels” in the ruling party did not collect enough votes to defeat the bill – and possibly their prime minister – in the final vote on the law, but they damaged his authority and leadership.

With the approval of this Fela law, the rebellion of conservatives against Sunak stopped.

Of course, the Labor opposition party voted against this law for many reasons. According to this party, Rwandan politics has already cost 450 million euros. The party’s MP Chris Bryant doubts whether the few deportations will have a real deterrent effect.

For Rishi Sunak Prime Minister of England, the worst situation is now over and the government crisis has been avoided. But right-wing forces in his party are unlikely to surrender. This bodes ill for him in an election year. Conservatives are far behind in the polls.

Opponents of this project, like the United Nations Refugee Agency, are outraged by this British law. Critics believe that there is no legal route for asylum seekers to enter the country. These plans also violate obligations to protect refugees. The fact that the government wants to place itself above the court’s decisions by this law also violates the separation of powers. According to critics, Britain currently has hundreds of millions of Pounds paid to Rwanda without anyone getting there. The Labor Party is talking about a political trick. According to critics, the Rwanda pact was created by then Prime Minister Boris Johnson to distract from the “Party Gate” scandal.

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