The UK government has been warned there is no evidence plans to send unwanted asylum seekers to Rwanda will work and that a similar policy in Australia has shown it will harm its international reputation | latikambourke
for asylum seekers who journey by boat across the Channel from France to England, to be sent to the capital of Kigali for processing and resettlement.
“There is no clear evidence that the policy will deter migrant crossings – numbers have significantly increased since it was announced in April, but one explanation for this may be attributed to scaremongering from people traffickers that because of new regulations coming in across the Channel it will be much harder to access the UK in future so they had better get on with it,” the report said.
The number of asylum seekers crossing the Channel has rocketed in recent years, from around 2000 people per year to 28,500 last year. An estimated 60,000 are expected to arrive in 2022. The number of visa extensions issued to those who travelled by boat comprised around three per cent of the nearly 1 million visas issued in the last 12 months.
The committee urged the UK government to open negotiations with the French to see what it would take to get the French authorities to tow back to their own waters boats which had left its shores.
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