WTAF? Asylum seekers to be detained across the UK in shock Rwanda operation

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https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/apr/28/home-office-to-detain-asylum-seekers-across-uk-in-shock-rwanda-operation

"The Home Office will launch a surprise operation to detain asylum seekers across the UK on Monday in preparation for deportation to Rwanda, weeks earlier than expected, the Guardian understands.
Officials plan to hold refugees who turn up for routine meetings at immigration service offices and will also pick people up nationwide in a two-week exercise.

They will be immediately transferred to detention centres, which have already been prepared for the operation, and held to be put on later flights to Rwanda. Others identified for these flights are already being held."

I am actually shocked by this. A cruel, inhumane action with terrible optics and a colossal waste of money.

It’s not your job in life to tell other countries how they should be run.

You clearly haven’t travelled extensively, if you had, you would know some of ‘despotic’ regimes are actually in reality well run countries that have suited the culture and values of the country for a Millenia or more.. it is people exactly like you that think unless we all live and think exactly like you - then it’s not a life worth living. I would strongly and vehemently disagree.

This is about you, imagining you have some kind of progressive thinking but honestly you are just being offensive. You have no real respect for other countries or cultures, and think everything is torture and hideous, and everyone deserves to come here and move in a nanny state. I see it is a form of racism.

The men are here to make a fast buck. They couldn’t care less about your fluffy thinking, and they have no issue with their home country in the main. If you actually ask them, they display a deep pride of their home country and family usually. How many asylum seekers do you speak to on a weekly basis? How often do you look into their backgrounds or paid to look into why they are here in the first place?

The men are here to make a fast buck.

As asylum seekers?

Are there no depths to which Sunak will stoop?
I am so ashamed of this country.

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Are there no depths to which Sunak will stoop?

Apparently not.

https://twitter.com/ukhomeoffice/status/1785635671316537510?t=uoT27QFyhjzRsH54wRe16w&s=19

Err yes, do pay attention. People don’t stay asylum seekers for their whole lives. And many just disappear into the black economy anyway..

So you’re saying when asylum is granted that asylum seekers shouldn’t work, make money or pay taxes? In that case I think I’m due a fairly hefty refund from hmrc.

Don't be silly, Simon. People who've been granted asylum should pay tax, NI and their council tax without having a job or claiming benefits. Because if they have a job, they're taking it from a British worker, and if they claim benefits, they're sponging off the state. According to an uncomfortable proportion of the British public.

It’s not your job in life to tell other countries how they should be run.

You clearly haven’t travelled extensively, if you had, you would know some of ‘despotic’ regimes are actually in reality well run countries that have suited the culture and values of the country for a Millenia or more.. it is people exactly like you that think unless we all live and think exactly like you - then it’s not a life worth living. I would strongly and vehemently disagree.

Well we shall have to agree to disagree, I don't think torturing, killing and imprisoning people without a trial does make for a life worth living, but of course you could be right and it makes for a lovely well run country, which more than makes up for a bit of maiming and murder !

It’s awful. The whole Rwanda plan is shameful.

What is shameful is that a person willing to attack another person with a hammer has been allowed to stay in UK: https://t.co/HhApIadjZ

And he’s had a total of 60 convictions in the UK and had three kids, I doubt the apple has fallen far from the tree. If you want to know why the UK has become more violent … allowing people like this to stay is an important factor for sure. You need a way to deport a person like this, absolutely insane tbh

Oh dear…..must be exhausting and awful to live in a country which causes you so much shame. Do you have other options? Are you in a position to emigrate?

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Sunak and Cleverly blatantly put all this in place because of Thursday's elections. I do hope the results have demonstrated to them that the electorate was totally unimpressed. Indeed, I suspect the entire Rwanda scheme and the way it has been implemented swung several votes against them.

Yes I think this too. Just a way to win votes. Glad it didn’t work.

It was never going to - it’s just the local elections. I don’t think it will be so cut and dried for the GE.

I'm afraid I agree. Local council elections are an entirely different kettle of fish from general elections. Local issues and personalities come into them, and while I'm sure lots of voters enjoyed sending a message to the Tories, national issues weren't necessarily at the forefront of everyone's thinking when they were choosing their local councillor.

Which is why I suspect Sunak is still post. The protest non vote. As only 29% turned out which is very low.

If we all emigrated when we didn’t like what our Government chose to do, who would help to provide necessary debate leading to better thought out laws and policies? It would be a bonkers solution if every time a government was voted in and started bringing in laws we disagreed with, the rest of the voters left! Every country would become a real life echo chamber.

Pleased awful Rwanda scheme finished if Cons hopefully lose GE.