The prime minister is expected to announce a series of measures, including the deployment of the Navy’s Channel operations chief from Friday and a new reception center to keep people trying to enter the UK to help end applicants’ housing practices. asylum in hotels. Interior Minister Priti Patel traveled to the Central African country on Wednesday following the finalization of a “partnership on migration and economic development”. The initiative comes as Johnson prepares to unveil further plans Thursday to dismantle the human trafficking gang business model and boost UK operations in the Channel. Referring to the UK referendum on leaving the EU, he said: “We can not maintain a parallel illegal system. Our compassion may be infinite, but our ability to help people is not. “The British people have voted many times for control of our borders. “Not to close them, but to control them.” The deal with Rwanda, which reportedly will cost 120 120m initially, follows three years of Patel promises to outsource asylum processing and the failure to reach agreements with Albania and Ghana. It is understood that the agreement – described as “unworkable and immoral” by Labor – will mean that asylum seekers in the UK will face the possibility of being transferred to a camp in Rwanda. Immigrants will reportedly process their asylum applications in the East African country and be encouraged to settle there. The Times reported that the move would only apply to male immigrants. A statement from No. 10 said: “The Home Secretary will present further details on a global partnership on migration and economic development signed by Home Secretary Priti Patel with Rwanda – one of the fastest growing economies in Africa. recognized worldwide for its history of welcoming and integrating migrants “. According to a 2020 report by the Human Rights Watch, detainees in the country suffer from arbitrary detention, ill-treatment and torture in official and unofficial facilities. The government has not yet explained how much the deal with Rwanda will cost UK taxpayers. whether any camp in which asylum seekers are imprisoned will be under the jurisdiction of the United Kingdom; and how the UK Government will seek to oversee the welfare of migrants. Yvette Cooper, the shadow interior minister, said Rwanda’s proposal was a “shameful statement” aimed at diverting attention from a recent breach of Boris Johnson’s law. “It is an unenforceable, immoral and extortionate policy that would cost UK taxpayers billions of dollars during a cost of living crisis and make it quicker and not easier to make quick and fair asylum decisions,” he said. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has said it expects to see a bilateral agreement, but has expressed concern about plans to send asylum seekers abroad. “UNHCR does not support the outsourcing of asylum obligations. “This includes measures taken by states to relocate asylum seekers and refugees to other countries, with insufficient safeguards to protect their rights or where this leads to relocation rather than the sharing of responsibilities for the protection of refugees,” said one spokesman. . Reacting to the government’s planned crackdown, Enver Solomon, the council’s chief adviser on refugees, said the government wanted to criminalize people for taking the wrong path to security by arriving in the UK. “The government chooses control and punishment over compassion, despite the fact that its own figures show that two-thirds of the men, women and children who arrive in small boats come from countries where war and persecution have forced them to flee. leave their homes. “We urge this government to immediately reconsider its plans, which are in stark contrast to what every Conservative Prime Minister has sought from Churchill to provide a fair hearing on British soil for asylum seekers,” he said. The first reception center, which will have the model of practice in Greece, will be a former RAF base in Linton-on-Ouse, North Yorkshire. The councils will also receive additional funding for the dispersal of needy migrants. The government has so far failed to pass the necessary legislation to place the so-called offshoring in the books of the statute. The bill on nationality and borders, which will allow asylum seekers to be processed abroad, has not yet received royal approval. Rt Revd Paul Butler, Bishop of Durham, who proposed amendments to the bill, said: “Asylum seekers arriving on our shores are an international responsibility and must be treated in our country with the human dignity they deserve. “There are many questions about the parameters of any offshoring proposal that remain unanswered, including financial costs, but mainly around the issue of dignity.” Denmark has previously entered into an agreement with the Rwandan Government on the admission of recent migrants. A memorandum of understanding was signed between the two countries last summer – but it remains unclear whether the Danish government has so far sent anyone to Rwanda. Ministers led by Patel have seen Australian-style offshore treatment centers – to which migrants would be transported within seven days of their arrival in the UK – as a key potential deterrent to halting the record increase in Channel crossings. Last month, he recruited former Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer to reconsider the country’s border force, weeks after urging the UK to adopt a tough line for migrants by boat. Last year, Australian government figures showed the country spent 1 461 million processing 239 refugees and asylum seekers detained offshore. More than 4,600 people have arrived in the UK by small boat crossings since the beginning of the year, according to data compiled by the PA news agency. On Wednesday, women and young children were among the passengers of several ships crossing the English Channel. People in life jackets and blankets have been seen arriving in Dover on Border Force boats as well as Dungeness in an RNLI lifeboat.
