Posted on 04/28/2024 2:14:10 PM PDT by RandFan
MIGRANTS are to start being detained within weeks in preparation for the first flights taking off to Rwanda, the Home Office has said.
It comes after the Guardian reported people would start to be transferred to detention centres on Monday.
In response, the Home Office said the government was "entering the final phase" of operationalising the policy.
Glasgow-based human rights lawyer Aamer Anwar said he had been told detentions would begin on Monday.
He said he expected to "see an explosion of the spirit of Kenmure Street across the UK" in the coming days - a reference to protests on a street in Glasgow in 2021 where hundreds of people blocked an immigration van to prevent asylum seekers being removed.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has said the first flight should take off in 10 to 12 weeks.
A Home Office spokesperson said at some stage preparations would "inevitably" include detaining people.
"It would be inappropriate to comment further on operational activity," the spokesperson added.
According to the Guardian, officials plan to hold up asylum seekers who turn up for routine meetings at immigration service offices and will also pick people up nationwide in a major two-week exercise. These people would then be transferred to detention centres.
These details have not been confirmed by the BBC.
The policy, which would see some asylum seekers sent to Rwanda, seeks to deter people from crossing the Channel in small boats.
Some 359 migrants were detected making the dangerous crossing on Saturday, according to Home Office figures.
The Safety of Rwanda Act, which aims to avoid further legal challenges to the policy by declaring Rwanda a safe country, was approved by MPs and peers this week and passed into law on Thursday.
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Do you think Trump could make a similar deal?
They need to deport over a million people.
Commercial aircraft are not the way to do it.
And, if they were serious, they would have been sinking the boats a year ago.
You’re right but its better than nothing I’ve concluded
“Glasgow-based human rights lawyer Aamer Anwar”
That’s a Scottish sounding name. Must be a member of the infamous and heroic Anwar Highlanders.
Why give them so much advance notice? I’m not buying self-deportation. Only a few will do that.
I wonder what the average non-politician Rwanda citizen thinks of this. I’ve not seen any journalist curious enough to ask.
Rounding them up will be difficult with white leftists assisting the criminals. But it has to be done.
Promises, promises ..
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“Commercial aircraft are not the way to do it.”
I was thinking an old cruise ship would work.
Small boat arrivals account for 0.42% - yes 0.42% - of total inward migration. The rest, arriving by normal means, is almost entirely ‘legal’.
Given that the obstacles - political, legal, practical, military, ethical..- to your preferred method outweigh the difficulties in hardening the criteria for ‘legal’ entry by at least as much as the inverse of that proportion, it’s not hard to see where change, if it happens at all, is more likely.
In any case nobody has ever pretended that the shoddy Rwanda deal will ever clear the backlog. Its only value, if any, is as a deterrent.
Except that it's not 0.42%. That should be 4.2%. Grovelling apologies for my geriatric mental arithmetic. My point stands, however.
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