According to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, the first aircraft to Kigali is scheduled to depart in June. In order to deport 75,000 refugees who had escaped for their life from war, starvation, and injustice in their home countries, an air bridge is being built.
Rwanda has eaten its pride and agreed to pay £50 million to house the “undesirables” from the UK. It remains to be seen if all or some of the refugees are ultimately deported. But with Sunak facing mounting unemployment and inflation, the Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Act, 2024, would prove to be a good diversionary tool in the next municipal votes in Britain.
Source: Civils Daily
The British strategy is narrow-minded as well as presumptuous. Some Third World nations, on the other hand, have shown great generosity. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees said that Colombia, Uganda, and Pakistan were three of the top nations in the world in 2022 for sheltering refugees. Germany is arguably the only Western nation that has shown compassion in the face of the ongoing refugee crisis.
The safety of those being deported to Rwanda, which is hardly a shining example of human rights protection, is a more pressing concern.The main problem is that 10 crore people have left the world’s coasts in search of safety as a result of conflict, food shortages, and climate change.
Source: BBC News
The situation is getting worse due to people’s desperation; in 2023 alone, almost one lakh Indians who were attempting to enter the US illegally were apprehended or deported. European foreign ministers have voiced secret concerns about the massive influx of undocumented Indians. Rather than resorting to a band-aid approach, the UK ought to spearhead efforts throughout the globe to discover a long-term, objective way to address the issue of migration.
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