This is far from new for Priti Patel, who is not on her first maneuver to try to return asylum seekers as far as possible from the United Kingdom. Two years ago, the Minister of the Interior planned to transfer migrants crossing the Channel to reception centers located in North Africa and the South Atlantic. Projects finally abandoned, among other things for their lack of humanity, their lack of convenience and their exorbitant cost. But when she has a dire idea, Priti Patel isn’t one to be deterred by common sense.
Last Thursday, the British Home Secretary announced in Kigali the signing of an agreement providing that, in exchange for 120 million pounds [144 millions d’euros] of development aid, Rwanda will accept the transfer to its soil of people seeking asylum in the United Kingdom. The method is much more radical, since it obviously does not provide for the examination of asylum applications. It is quite simply, and beyond the other criticisms that can be made to him, a process of expulsion, in addition to the strong hints of colonialism.
A shock initiative to distract the media
If Rwanda is, according to Boris Johnson, a dynamic country and one of the safest in the world, it was singled out, just last week, by the American State Department for its “significant human rights violations”, including executions and arrests ar
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