Britain stopped from sending first plane of refugees to Rwanda
Britain has cancelled its first deportation flight to Rwanda after a last-minute intervention by the European Court of Human Rights, which decided there was “a real risk of irreversible harm” to the asylum seekers involved.
In exchange for accepting them, Rwanda would receive millions of pounds in development aid. The deportees would be allowed to apply for asylum in Rwanda, not Britain. Foreign Secretary Liz Truss had said earlier in the day that the plane would take off no matter how many people were on board. But after the appeals, no one remained.
. The leaders of the Church of England joined the opposition, calling the government’s policy “immoral”.“We are going to get on and deliver” the plan, Johnson declared, arguing that the move is a legitimate way to protect lives and thwart the criminal gangs that smuggle migrants across the English Channel in small boats.Opponents of the plan have argued that it is illegal and inhumane to send people thousands of miles to a country they don’t want to live in.
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