I know, why don't we send them all to Rwanda?

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Does anyone else think this sounds like a suggestion someone made as a joke, to liven up a dull or fraught meeting and somehow, someone decided to run with it?

No one is sneering. But the people who are sent to Rwanda are not likely to be going on lovely gorilla treks, are they?

The numbers in Aus are tiny due to policies

Whether people want that kind of outcome well it’s up to them, but there’s no other way eg safe routes, processing or gang related that would get to the numbers Aus have

In this case is was supposed to lead the front pages to take the heat off Boris and the release of the Sue Gray report. Or Pincher I can’t remember which scandal. Subsequent Home Secs and PMs have decided to run with it.

God knows what’s going to happen when people find out that not only has it not significantly decreased the number of asylum seekers already here but that small boat crossings are still rising.

"A bit cheeky as the UN itself has also sent migrants to Rwanda as part of its UNHCR resettlement programme."

This relates to refugees stuck in Libyan detention centres doesn't it?
Bit different in that they were given a choice whether to go or not.
A refugee centre in Tripoli was bombed so I guess Rwanda might look an attractive choice in those circumstances. Either way the offer to go to Rwanda was for temporary safety whilst their applications were processed elsewhere.

I think you are comparing apples with oranges. Is this forced resettlement?

help.unhcr.org/rwanda/services/resettlement_eng/#:~:text=Resettlement%20is%20the%20transfer%20from,residence%20(the%20Resettlement%20State).

@lavenderlou
All who claim benefits? Does that include all the disabled people in the UK?
Or do you just mean the imigrants?
Please explain

Others have tried and failed with this. Hasn't stopped UK Gov spending millions trying it again
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-61882542

Much like the Brexit bus, it doesn't have to be actually deliverable [or even legal] to win votes. You just have to talk the talk and find enough people who are gullible enough to believe this will a) fix the problem and b) make their lives better.

That seems very tricky. Perhaps Rwanda could offer to help them back?

Yeah I'm going to see if I can read the ruling somewhere.

Good idea. Perhaps they could send them back as part of the exchange. Would prevent them having to make another small boat crossing.

I would really like to know what the plan is when they are there. I mean we shove them on a prison barge.

I'm not actually in favour of it but its a policy used by countries such as Australia which has far more robust immigration rules than the UK

Ironic. Australia used to be our dumping ground for sheep rustlers and the like. The policy does feel like a massive step back to the brutal history of transportation as a punishment.

Yes I wouldn't want it to be a case of people then try to leave Rwanda to get back here and then die in the crossing when they attempt it a SECOND time.

I don’t think there is one. Kagame is just rinsing us for as much of our tax money as he can get.

Sobering reading

Speed up the process and put the brakes on the human rights lawyers and appeal gravy train that WE are paying for
If you are guilty of a serious crime thye are kicked out immediately after the sentence is completed. No appeals. Just out.

I think the entire Tory party should be shipped off to Rwanda especially Rishi Sunak!

We have sent lots of Home Secretaries there but the fuckers keep coming back.

If Rwanda is the lovely place that the government want us to believe, then how does that work as a deterrent to stop the boats?
Unless, of course, it's as awful for the immigrants when they get there as we are imagining, so they are just being sent there as a punishment which is why no sane person wants this to happen.

It would be good if he could give us a tour

Australia used to be our dumping ground for sheep rustlers and the like

I think Australians have moved on since then and are pretty happy with their policies, hence they are now bipartisan and no party will shift on border control

It’s just imitating what the German Government do. As they is in the EU, it must be a great idea, according to MN.

This myth refuses to die. Other countries may be considering sending asylum seekers abroad to process them. They then go back if they are accepted. This is not what the U.K. are suggesting at all. Which is why what others are doing is legal and what we are going to do is illegal.

Homeless refugees are homeless because they aren’t allowed to work. Given the state of the economy and the government bleating about all the job availability, perhaps let asylum seekers work while they are waiting for their status to be settled.

Interestingly, we aren’t the first European country to engage Rwanda for refugee resettlement.

Denmark passed the law in 2021 - I’m not sure how utilised the program has been but it is interesting that there was no as much backlash about the policy at that time. Or at least I don’t remember it.