New Rwanda flight farce: Priti Patel faces being banned from sending the first Channel migrants to Africa after a ‘deluge’ of legal claims for all 31 people due to be deported on Tuesday

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  1. The crazy headline hooked me.

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    Article 🪞 link: https://archive.ph/rCL7o

    >‘We are getting claims from every single one,’ a source said. ‘In many cases they are making multiple claims under various bits of the Human Rights Act and modern slavery legislation. Over the weekend there have been new claims every hour and we expect more right up to when the flight goes.
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    >‘We will operate the flight even if there is just one person on it, but there is a real prospect that even that might not be possible.’
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    >The warning came as:
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    > * Tory MPs said the Human Rights Act may have to be scrapped;
    > * Rwanda said it was ready to take ‘tens of thousands’ of migrants from Britain – and dismissed criticism of its human rights record;
    > * Ministers accused Prince Charles of ‘over-reaching’ after the Daily Mail revealed he had branded the Rwanda policy ‘appalling’;
    > * Government sources said ministers were reviewing the UK’s £80million funding for the UN refugee agency after it claimed the Rwanda policy failed its standards of ‘legality and appropriateness’;
    > * Northern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis defended the policy, saying it would ‘break the business model’ of people-smugglers;
    > * Angry protests were held yesterday both outside and within an immigration removal centre at Gatwick Airport.

  2. If you are looking to read less hyperbolic pieces

    >Guardian: [Unions call for delay to Rwanda policy until legal position fully tested](https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jun/12/unions-call-for-delay-to-rwanda-policy-until-legal-position-fully-tested)
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    >Appeal against plan to remove asylum seekers who arrive in the UK via unofficial routes due to take place on Monday

    and

    >iNews: [Rwanda policy: ‘High chance’ of Government defeat in Court of Appeal as first deportation flight faces delay](https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/rwanda-deportations-home-office-fears-judges-will-block-flagship-migrant-policy-in-last-ditch-court-battle-1682311)
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    >The first deportation flight to the African country is scheduled for Tuesday

  3. Ahhh yes, oh we can’t relocate a few asylum seekers, so WE MUST SCRAP ALL OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS ACT, NOW!!!

    Yup, taking back all control, what could possibly go wrong in our new found soverign Democracy with Emperor Bojo and Darth Patel at the helm.

  4. Love how the Express reading flag shaggers love the royal family until one speaks out of turn then the headline is STAY OUT OF POLITICS CHARLES.

  5. The solution to the migrant crisis is to work with the EU to improve boarder security and in the future set up camps outside of Europe funded and run by the EU.

    Although the EU is just as clueless about this situation

    Pretty soon refugees and asylum seekers will be a numbers game when more and more leave home and into Europe it’s unsustainable we either take an amount and say no more or we make their homes better so they stay where they are which they probably want.

  6. Yeah lets just let everybody in who wants to come to the UK. After all it’s not like we have a housing shortage, and can only feed less than 50% of the population with what we grow ourselves.

  8. The people being shipped to Rwanda are the people who arrived by dinghy at the British Coast and they’d past through several ‘safe’ countries on their way.

    Priti Patel isn’t sending the Afghan or the Ukrainian refugees to Rwanda.

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