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
“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.