The Home Office and UK government policy concerning asylum seekers/Rwanda deportations

[MickiQ]

Well the Rwandan treasury will be sorry to see him go.

 

[Silas Loom]

I wonder if Labour will retrospectively budget the whole thing as a misguided overseas aid initiative, contributing to the ODA spend target.

 

[klang]

So far the UK Government has paid Rwanda £220,000,000 and spent about another £28,000,000 on setting up the scheme.

It has agreed to pay Rwanda another £50,000,000 per year in 24/25, 25/26 and 26/27.

That's £398,000,000 before a single person has been forced onto a plane.

If the Government managed to send 300 people to Rwanda, which is the target but unlikely ever to happen, the total cost of the scheme including flights and everything would be around £541,000,000, or £1,800,000 per person forcibly removed from the country.

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It's so twisted.

 

[ddraig]

secret training base

Inside secret government Rwanda training base

Immigration staff are in training to put detainees on to planes - but will the Rwanda plan survive the election?

www.bbc.co.uk

They practise carrying the "detainee" up the stairs to a plane and sitting them in a seat.

It takes three officers to escort one detainee, two in seats either side, the other across the aisle offering support.

All three fly to the destination.

“It can be quite challenging,” one of the trainers, Mark Preston says, but the “force used is always reasonable”.

But the use of force in the immigration system has sometimes not been reasonable.

In 2010, Jimmy Mubenga died while being sent back to Angola.

A coroner concluded he had been unlawfully killed, though his escorts were later cleared of manslaughter.

 

[teqniq]

I kinda think we knew that anyway. Colossal waste of public money, and for what?

Rwanda: No credible asylum plan, says Public Accounts Committee

Parliamentary report says there is little to show for the hundreds of millions spent on Rwanda so far.

www.bbc.com

 

[Dystopiary]

Four refugees sent to Rwanda from Diego Garcia (a "British overseas territory") have spoken to a couple of people at the BBC.

The four have complex medical needs, having previously experienced torture and sexual violence, but those needs are not being met.

All say they have experienced harassment and unwanted sexual harassment in Rwanda.

One of the group, Azhagu, says he has been diagnosed with severe post-traumatic stress disorder "and uncertainty about his future and the isolation are making things worse."

“We are not getting proper medical treatment. We have mental health issues,” says the 23-year-old. “Whenever we go and tell the doctors about our problems they can't help us.”

A young woman says she and her father "don’t go outside. We’re always scared."

Refugees sent to Rwanda from remote UK island speak to BBC

 

[GarveyLives]

The Home Office and UK government policy concerning asylum seekers/Rwanda deportations​

The current Home Secretary reacts to the comments of James Sunderland, Conservative Party Member of Parliament (MP) for Bracknell 2019-2024 (and current parliamentary candidate for the same constituency):

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James Cleverly humiliated as recording of aide describing ‘crap’ Rwanda policy leaks