Detention centres have reportedly been prepared to hold illegal immigrants before they are flown to Rwanda.
The UK Home Office will launch a nationwide sweep to detain illegal immigrants ahead of their deportation to Rwanda, The Guardian reported on Sunday. The operation comes after parliament passed a bill allowing the scheme to go ahead.
Over the course of two weeks, law enforcement officers will detain migrants at immigration services meetings and bail hearings, and in surprise raids across the country, the newspaper’s sources claimed. Those apprehended will be held in specially-prepared detention centers ahead of the first flights to Rwanda later this summer, they added.
The Home Office did not confirm any details of the operation, but told the Guardian that the government’s ambitious deportation plan would inevitably “include detaining people in preparation for the first flight, which is set to take off to Rwanda in 10 to 12 weeks.”
Britain struck a five-year agreement with Rwanda in April 2022 for asylum seekers who entered the country illegally to be sent to the African nation while their claims are processed. However, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) intervened to block the first deportation flight two months later, and the UK’s Supreme Court ruled the scheme unlawful last November.
Earlier this week, parliament passed the Safety of Rwanda Act, which provides the legal framework for flights to begin.
Pro-immigration NGOs will likely file legal objections to the detentions, and activists will organize protests in some areas, they told the Guardian. Refugee Council CEO Enver Solomon said that the plan is “inhumane” and will cause “chaos and human misery” in immigrant communities.
Britain has seen a massive influx of illegal immigrants entering the country by boat from mainland Europe in recent years. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has made “stopping the boats” a key promise since taking office in 2022, but his Conservative government has thus far failed to tackle the problem. According to the latest government figures, 7,167 people arrived on so-called ‘small boats’ in the first four months of this year, an all-time high for that period and an increase of more than 1,400 since the same January to April period last year.
Since the passage of the Safety of Rwanda Act, however, illegal immigrants have already begun to leave the UK in droves, Irish Deputy Prime Minister Micheal Martin claimed this week. According to Martin, the migrants are taking advantage of the UK’s open Northern Irish border to enter the Republic of Ireland and file new asylum claims there.
With more than 80% of recently-arrived asylum seekers now entering Ireland from Northern Ireland, Irish Justice Minister Helen McEntee has promised to draft “emergency legislation” next week to “effectively return people to the UK.”
Believe it when I see it.
Makes me think of the windrush scandal. When ( colored) british people without ID were ” re-apatriated” to carribean were ” they came from”. ( under ms may guidance, home secretary)
The UK is in fact a lawless, racistic and xenophobic country. Most of the now refugees are from syria, lybia, afghanistan, irak. Countries destroyed by senseless wars and a.o. bombed by the UK .
Or from former british colonies.
You reap what you sow.
I would rather have no war and no refugees
You contradict yourself.
Looks like the UK has managed to activate one surviving remnant of national survival of what was once a nation before embarking on the commonwealth (the irony!).
Integrated multiculturalism is DEAD!
National survival start with peace.
We won t be responsible for so much destruction, neither refugees.
All those senseless wars, under false pretexts are the sources of the flow of refugees.
Of course it is a huge problem for the autochtone populations when people from a different culture take root in your own country. Ask the maori, they know…..
Stop the benefits bill would be the only law they would need to make and that would stop the whole merry go round dead in its tracks.
These people are not refugees. Nor are they asylum seekers. They are mainly healthy males aged between 15 and 50, generally the most mobile group in any society, and they are after the economic benefits which are still being offered by Western countries. What they don’t get given to them they will take by force. It is not war that has destabilised their countries, it is them. Look at South Africa. Look at London. Look at anywhere where they lounge about in numbers.
It is not that they will not integrate, it is that they are incapable of integrating. Germany’s biggest problems are with the second and third generations of the previous so called asylum seekers.
Western colonisation brought nothing but good to other countries and after de-colonisation it is notable that none of them complain about aid from the West. Which aid simply disappears into the pockets of anyone able to grab a bit for themselves.
Correct on ALL points 👍
It’s only 40 years overdue…
Have fun trying to remove those people…in which the ‘removal process’ will probably descend into massive civil unrest or even an ethnic civil war in various ‘hot-spots’
At least Sweden began the process some months ago, and have been doing it quietly inorder not to ‘kick open a hornet’s nest’…
An election is coming up.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/04/inquiry-into-nazi-camps-on-alderney-to-examine-if-there-was-british-cover-up
Published today in the Guardian ( observer).
Alderney is a vey small british island near the French coast of Normandy in the Channel.
Now that the MSM cannot silence the crime perpetrated by israhell in Gaza, more and more of that kind of articles over the holocaust are published in european MSM.
The victim argument again….. as if they were nog the perpetrators