No Dunki route to London anymore: Why is Rishi Sunak deporting UK’s illegal immigrants to Rwanda? An explainer
dunki route and somehow manages to reach the United Kingdom for a better life there. Upon reaching there, however, he is now likely to be deported to Rwanda, a small country in central Africa. Something of this sort is now going to happen in UK as ‘Rwanda Asylum Plan’ comes into force.
On April 30 this year, the first migrant was sent to Rwanda after his asylum application was rejected by the United Kingdom. This was the first deportation to Rwanda, according to the British media. On April 22, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak had announced that his government had booked commercial charter planes and would start sending asylum seekers to Rwanda within 10 to 12 weeks.
ALSO READ: Rishi Sunak's popularity at lowest, 70% survey respondents view the UK PM as 'unfavourably' The Rwanda plan was first proposed in April 2022. This entails relocating illegal immigrants for processing, asylum and resettlement. The plan is known as a way to stop illegal migration and the current PM, under the policy of ‘Stop the Boats’, is getting the Rwanda plan in action.
In return for this, the UK government will accept a small number of most vulnerable refugees from Rwanda and pay a sum total of £120 million to the African nation. The Rwanda policy was signed on April 14, 2022 between Rwandan foreign minister Vincent Biruta and then British home secretary Priti Patel, an Indian origin UK’s politician. The first flight for this plan got a green signal from the High Court of Justice and was scheduled for June 14, 2022.
But thanks to the intervention by the European Court of Human Rights, the plan was halted at the eleventh hour. Finally, the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom gave its verdict in favour of the government on Nov 15, 2023. The
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