One-way ticket to Rwanda for some UK asylum seekers

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-61097114

One-way ticket to Rwanda for some UK asylum seekers

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Some asylum seekers who cross the Channel to the UK will be given a one-way ticket to Rwanda under new government plans.

The pilot scheme will focus on single men arriving on boats or lorries.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the £120m scheme would "save countless lives" from human trafficking.

Refugee organisations have criticised the plan as cruel. They questioned its cost and impact and raised concerns about Rwanda's human rights record.

Mr Johnson said action was needed to stop "vile people smugglers" turning the ocean into a "watery graveyard", with the plan designed to break their business model.

"Our compassion may be infinite but our capacity to help people is not," he said. "We can't ask the British taxpayer to write a blank cheque to cover the costs of anyone who might want to come and live here."....

Last year, 28,526 people are known to have crossed in small boats, up from 8,404 in 2020. About 600 people made the crossing on Wednesday - the figure could reach 1,000 a day in coming weeks, Mr Johnson said.

The number of people who can be relocated will be "unlimited", said Mr Johnson.

Rwanda will have the "capacity to resettle tens of thousands of people in the years ahead", including those who have arrived "illegally" since the start of the year, he said....

Home Secretary Priti Patel, who travelled to Rwandan capital Kigali to sign the deal, said it was a "global first and it will change the way we collectively tackle illegal migration".

She said the "vast majority" of those arriving in the UK "illegally" would be considered for relocation to Rwanda....

Precise details of the plan are yet to be confirmed - but he said the trial would be restricted to mostly single men.

Under the proposal, Rwanda would take responsibility for the people who made the more than 4,000-mile journey, put them through an asylum process, and at the end of that process, if they were successful, they would have long-term accommodation in Rwanda.

The BBC has seen accommodation the asylum seekers would be housed in, thought to have enough space for about 100 people at a time and to process up to 500 a year.

Image caption,

Journalists were given a tour of a typical government refugee facility in Rwanda

The Rwandan government said migrants would be "entitled to full protection under Rwandan law, equal access to employment, and enrolment in healthcare and social care services".

The UK Home Office believes existing asylum law will be enough to implement the plan, but questions remain about the legality of the scheme.

Mr Johnson said the plan was "fully compliant" with international law, but acknowledged he expected it to be subject to challenge in the courts and from a "formidable army of politically-motivated lawyers".

 

[dalsingh101]

Rwanda is supposed to be one of the most developed parts of Africa? 

[HSD]

At least Rwandan tourists won’t have to worry about buying return tickets. 

[GurjantGnostic]

On 4/21/2022 at 4:17 PM, HSD said:

At least Rwandan tourists won’t have to worry about buying return tickets. 

Some vacations just give you a break from your problems. Some...solve all life's problems. 

[dalsingh101]

3 hours ago, MrSingh1699 said:

I wouldn't quite say that Dally Paji but it has made significant strides after the Rwandan Genocide was ended.

What's sad is that there was no international UN Khalsa Fauj to protect those massacred at the time. 

After seeing all the 'international gallivanting' by brits and the US in this department, and the mess they've created, I'd be well averse to Sikhs jumping into some modern neo-colonialist 'international policemen' role.

 

I think me and you are on two very different pages.    

[dalsingh101]

On 4/26/2022 at 3:44 AM, MrSingh1699 said:

Even if collectively as a Sikh Panth we could eradicate drugs, caste identification, illiteracy, matrimonial apartheid, apartheid golak's, Abrahmic and Dera conversions and female infanticide in the short term that would be a big enough initial achievement for this decade in Punjab.

This is what our focus needs to be on. Not wishy washy global policeman fantasies. 

I feel a human empathy for those struggling globally, especially minority groups like indigenous people trapped and overwhelmed in their own homelands,  but when we can't sort our own issues out, I can't see how we can sort other communities problems who are physically a thousand miles away from us? 

We aren't even a community widely trained in modern weaponry and warfare these days either. That has implications too. 

[dalsingh101]

7 hours ago, MrSingh1699 said:

As for warfare and weaponry training that is why a UN-affiliated non-national non-NATO-affiliated Sikh Diaspora Peacekeeping Fauj would be no bad thing one day instead of youth in BC and elsewhere being taught by anti-Sikh elements that gangbanging is cool - conscription in such a fauj would introduce an element of discipline and sewa bhawaana amongst misguided and weak-willed Diaspora Sikh youth.

 

You must be mental if you think anyone wants to see Sikhs militarily trained up, other than for 'canon-fodder' or neo-colonialist style propaganda purposes.

It's strange because once upon a time (a long time ago) I might have said things similar to what you said above. But since then I've learnt about the world, and geo-political realities. 

What we need are our own secure bases, where we can be safe (as much as possible) and prosper, strengthen ourselves and evolve as a panth. We've lost so much blood since the 'annexation'  i.e. the anglo-sikh wars, the two british wars against the germans, partition, 84 onwards, as well as material wealth, and not to mention the wide scale looting and destruction of our material heritage - I think we need to focus on counter balancing that.   

 

I don't know what is going on in BC? Is that where you are? What's the score with those guys? I heard they were all rich boys? Plus it ain't like apnay can't get some basic weapons training legally at firing ranges in places like the US and Canada. 

[GurjantGnostic]

15 minutes ago, MrSingh1699 said:

Cannon fodder for NATO forces will never be on the agenda at any point. But even though we are too weak right now I hope the time isn't far off that even as a volunteer force we can help those parts of the world exploited by colonialist and imperialist powers (once we have freed ourselves of their insidious influence first).

Yes 100% that once the rot of primary damage between 1849-2022 can be reversed that's when we can start to progress.

Most folks in BC are doing well in life and progressing financially however there is a lack of direction among a 1% minority of Canadian born millenials (that isn't so prevalent in Ontario) in that they think it is acceptable to live off "Daddy da paisa" or that crime is an acceptable lifestyle choice and that killing other folks from their own community is somehow manly which are dragging the name of the community down.

These kids are the minority but the pervasiveness of that anti-Sikh culture generally is the danger. But newer but poorer immigrants from Punjab seem to realise the importance of instilling Sikh values to their children at their local Gurdwara to a greater degree and hopefully Tony Montana can cease being a role model to a demented minority within this decade!

We need those private investigation, security, and mercenary firms Bhai Jagraj Singh Ji spoke of. 

And real Jathas for the youth instead of Gangs. 

[dalsingh101]

7 hours ago, MrSingh1699 said:

These kids are the minority but the pervasiveness of that anti-Sikh culture generally is the danger. But newer but poorer immigrants from Punjab seem to realise the importance of instilling Sikh values to their children at their local Gurdwara to a greater degree and hopefully Tony Montana can cease being a role model to a demented minority within this decade!

Lol!!!

BC Juts dream come true = 

[dalsingh101]

7 hours ago, MrSingh1699 said:

Cannon fodder for NATO forces will never be on the agenda at any point. But even though we are too weak right now I hope the time isn't far off that even as a volunteer force we can help those parts of the world exploited by colonialist and imperialist powers (once we have freed ourselves of their insidious influence first).

Yes 100% that once the rot of primary damage between 1849-2022 can be reversed that's when we can start to progress.

Forget helping others. We may want to focus on teaching people who've systemically f**ked us over a good few hard lessons first. 

[GurjantGnostic]

5 hours ago, dalsingh101 said:

Forget helping others. We may want to focus on teaching people who've systemically f**ked us over a good few hard lessons first. 

I'm salivating over both scenarios.