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

 

[teqniq]

Good:

Starmer kills off Rwanda plan on first day as PM

 

[Lotte]

I hate him slightly less now.

 

[teqniq]

No shit Sherlock:

Children missing from Home Office hotels likely to have been trafficked, report finds

Exclusive: Findings spark new calls for public inquiry into ‘scandal’ of missing migrant children in UK

www.theguardian.com

 

[teqniq]

Yvette Cooper writes in the Scum:

 

[zedr]

Yvette Cooper writes in the Scum:

It was inevitable, but its so gross. They've continued to remove people from hotels either to military barracks or to the Bibby Stockholm so seems like its just business as usual for the hostile environment.

 

[teqniq]

Breakdown of Labour's asylum and borders policies in the King's speech:

Thread by @stand_for_all on Thread Reader App

@stand_for_all: Okay, a, very, long thread on @UKLabour's asylum and border policies announced today in the #KingSpeech. The short version to start though is that they are, aside from processing applications and can...…

threadreaderapp.com

 

[T & P]

£700m wasted on that hideous inhuman scheme...

Yvette Cooper: Tories spent £700m on Rwanda scheme

The home secretary says the scheme is "the most shocking waste of taxpayers' money I have ever seen".

www.bbc.co.uk

£175m cost per person deported

 

[bluescreen]

Probably already posted elsewhere, but should be noted here:

Government officials secretly drew up contingency plans for the outbreak of war in Rwanda - even as Tories voted it was a safe country, The Mirror can reveal.
Former Foreign Secretary David Cameron was briefed on a communications strategy demanding civilians were protected and aid allowed in. The revelation comes days after Robert Jenrick became the first Tory leadership candidate to pledge to resurrect the controversial Rwanda project, which was scrapped by Labour.

Memos obtained by this newspaper show preparations were underway in the Foreign Office in case tensions between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) escalated. One email, sent on January 17, shows Lord Cameron and his deputy, Andrew Mitchell, were warned of "heightened regional tensions" after troops crossed the border into Rwanda. But on the very same day, Rishi Sunak's Safety of Rwanda Bill passed its third reading in the House of Commons with no mention of growing war fears.

Mirror article paywalled, but archived here:

https://archive.ph/ygqc9#selection-1591.0-1633.38

 

[teqniq]

Archived Fail piece penned by Dan Hodges, Yuk:

The biggest deportation flight in history and how Labour have drawn first blood in battle against the small boat crossings

 

[stethoscope]

Germany considering Rwanda deportations using UK facilities after Labour ditched plan

Downing Street said it would not comment on the discussions between two foreign governments.

www.independent.co.uk

Germany could use asylum facilities in Rwanda originally intended for the UK’s aborted migration scheme, reports from Berlin have suggested.

The country’s migration commissioner, Joachim Stamp, has suggested the EU could utilise existing asylum accommodation in the east African country, originally destined for migrants deported from Britain under the now-scrapped scheme.

Downing Street said it would not comment on the discussions between two foreign governments.