2022–24 British immigration policy
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Government scheme to send asylum seekers to Rwanda will cost £169,000 per person, Home Office says
r/unitedkingdom • 352 • June 26, 2023
Government scheme to send asylum seekers to Rwanda will cost £169,000 per person, Home Office says
£169,000 per person is absolutely fucking mental.
That is such an enormous amount of money - especially compared to the cost of processing asylum claims quickly and then giving refugees who have had their claims accepted short term support until they can start working and start supporting themsleves.
Right wingers claim to be worried about refugees stealing our jobs, but if the alternative is taxing us £169,000 so that they can spend the money on forcibly sending them to Rwanda against their will the it's difficult to believe that it's an economic choice.
It's all about the cruelty. They're prepared to tax us £169,000 or to take £169,000 away from schools, hospitals or schemes to support other needy people so that they can spend £169,000 on being cruel for absolutely no fucking reason.
If you still support this scheme, are you prepared to pay the extra tax so that you can be needlessly and expensively cruel to people who are fleeing war and persecution? Or do you expect the rest of us to chip in for this colossal waste of money as well?
More on reddit.comRwanda asylum scheme: Warning over rights record before UK flight
r/ukpolitics • 89 • 87% Upvoted
Rwanda asylum scheme: Warning over rights record before UK flight
This may possibly have been the most stupid policy ever proposed by the most stupid British government ever. For the following reasons:
It's inhumane
It's not economically viable (see similar attempt in Australia)
There's no evidence that this deterrent system would work
The agreement with Rwanda isn't actually one way - we would be taking some of their refugees in exchange (see paragraph 16 of the agreement). It would literally have no impact on net asylum seeker figures.
It doesn't even attempt to target the problem - the fact that people smugglers are profiteering from this dangerous practice
It can't attempt to tackle the problem identified in point 5 because it won't acknowledge the cause of this problem - the fact that alternative legal routes to claiming asylum have been closed down over the last decade. For the record, people weren't coming over in dinghys on this scale prior to 2010
They knew the policy was never, ever going to happen. So it was a total waste of everyone's time, designed to create yet another distraction from the fact they've fucked everything
ETA - People down voting- tell me where I'm wrong?
More on reddit.comStarmer opens the door to Albania immigration scheme to replace Rwanda - Prime Minister plans to discuss ‘strong migration options’ with Giorgia Meloni when they meet in Rome
r/ukpolitics • 297 • September 16, 2024
Starmer opens the door to Albania immigration scheme to replace Rwanda - Prime Minister plans to discuss ‘strong migration options’ with Giorgia Meloni when they meet in Rome
Labour’s plan to turbocharge migrant returns after cancelling Rwanda scheme
r/ukpolitics • 68 • August 25, 2024
Labour’s plan to turbocharge migrant returns after cancelling Rwanda scheme