An airplane containing Afghan and Iranian refugees arrived on British soil is due to take off Tuesday evening for Kigali. A measure qualified as “immoral” by the Anglican Church.
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A few hundred demonstrators are gathered this Monday, June 13, under the windows of the Home Office, in the Westminster district. “Refugees Are Welcome here” (the refugees are welcome here) and “Priti Patel, Go to Hell!” (Priviti Patel – British Minister of the Interior -, go to hell!), Scandes the crowd. “We may have lost a battle today, but we will continue to fight, to persuade people that there are not too many refugees in this country and that the migration policy of the Johnson government is bad”, Ensures at the Micro Hector, activist of Barac UK, an anti -racist association. Mary, a young woman from the NGO Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants, reads an email addressed to the crowd by Home Office officials, who explain that they are “sorry to have been accomplices of this unfair policy”.
The demonstrators mean their disgust for the new British migration policy and their anger, on the eve of the scheduled departure of a first plane for Rwanda, with asylum seekers who came to seek refuge in the United Kingdom . In April, Downing Street shocked migrant assistance associations, the Labor Party and even some conservative elected officials, announcing a partnership with Kigali to send asylum seekers to Rwanda alone that they would have arrived “illegally” In the United Kingdom, that is to say without a visa, most likely crossing the round by pneumatic boat.
“Break the economic model” of the smugglers
This policy was denounced by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, by the Archbishop of Canterbury and Primate of the Anglican Church – which considers it “immoral” – and even, according to newspapers Sunday, by Prince Charles – who would deem it “appalling”. This did not prevent Prini Patel from trying to implement it. Sending to Rwanda, against their will, asylum seekers (Afghans, Eritreans or Iranian) who would however have every chance of obtaining refugee status in the United Kingdom, aims to discourage crossings of the Channel, therefore to avoid The drowning and “breaking the economic model” of the smugglers, insists the minister. She wants to prove to the right wing of the Conservatives she acts, while already 10,000 people have crossed the Channel since the beginning of 2022.
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