We should set ourselves up as the EU’s unofficial migration taskforce and look to establish these processing centres in other places.
It is obvious by now that there’s something monumental in the wind and something needs to happen to safeguard genuine asylum claims.
Well done U.K. Offshore processing is a good deterrent. They should follow this up with laws preventing years of appeals and taxpayer dollars by not allowing appeals once a finding of “Non-Refugee status| is found.
By my basic reckoning, each migrant is going to cost the taxpayer around £20k, not including local housing and processing costs, transport costs, legal challenges and other legal aid as part of their asylum claim, to get to Rwanda. Then they fail and start the journey again north back to Britain. I guess it might be a saving in the long run but the whole thing seems ridiculous and with a 200 head annual capacity, that’s not even 1% of those who crossed last year alone. Deterrent? I think not! In fact more people came today in a single boat than there are entire places in this Rwandan scheme.
I read that the deal stipulates that the deportation works both ways – we send to Rwanda and they can send to us, no commercial airline can be a part of the plan due to it breaking international law, there will be a max of 300 people deported per year, i also read that once in Rwanda the migrants can make there way back after a period of time.
Isn’t the UK govt also paying millions on an ongoing basis to Rwanda to provide the service?
It all smells of failure. I agree that a deterrent is needed, it would be cheaper and more effective to legal routes set up, many more properly trained staff processing the claims to clear the backlog and apply the law properly for failed claimants.
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We should set ourselves up as the EU’s unofficial migration taskforce and look to establish these processing centres in other places.
It is obvious by now that there’s something monumental in the wind and something needs to happen to safeguard genuine asylum claims.
Well done U.K. Offshore processing is a good deterrent. They should follow this up with laws preventing years of appeals and taxpayer dollars by not allowing appeals once a finding of “Non-Refugee status| is found.
By my basic reckoning, each migrant is going to cost the taxpayer around £20k, not including local housing and processing costs, transport costs, legal challenges and other legal aid as part of their asylum claim, to get to Rwanda. Then they fail and start the journey again north back to Britain. I guess it might be a saving in the long run but the whole thing seems ridiculous and with a 200 head annual capacity, that’s not even 1% of those who crossed last year alone. Deterrent? I think not! In fact more people came today in a single boat than there are entire places in this Rwandan scheme.
I read that the deal stipulates that the deportation works both ways – we send to Rwanda and they can send to us, no commercial airline can be a part of the plan due to it breaking international law, there will be a max of 300 people deported per year, i also read that once in Rwanda the migrants can make there way back after a period of time.
Isn’t the UK govt also paying millions on an ongoing basis to Rwanda to provide the service?
It all smells of failure. I agree that a deterrent is needed, it would be cheaper and more effective to legal routes set up, many more properly trained staff processing the claims to clear the backlog and apply the law properly for failed claimants.