UK’s Rwanda asylum plans are shallow, expensive, and counterproductive

RAMP Principal and Liberal Democrat MP for Westmorland and Lonsdale, Tim Farron, following a cross-party APPG Migration delegation visit to Calais last week, argues that the UK Rwanda’s plan are ‘are shallow, expensive, and counterproductive’.

He lays out the reasons why he thinks the plan will not work in practice, expressing the fear that for people who are seeking to come to the UK because of family, linguistic and cultural ties, they will simply try to get back again from Rwanda, thereby providing a new, more lucrative and dangerous market for the traffickers. He explains that the solution to the issue of dangerous crossings would be to provide more safe and legal routes, including by forming a partnership with France that would allow refugees to claim asylum in the UK from centres there.

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