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Britain, Starmer ends Rwanda migrant deportation scheme

2024-07-06 18:52:12, Kosova & Bota CNA
Britain, Starmer ends Rwanda migrant deportation scheme
The newly elected Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Keir Starmer. Source, AP

Newly-elected UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer confirmed on Saturday that his government would not carry out his predecessor's policy of deporting asylum seekers arriving in small boats to Rwanda, ending the scheme before it could started to be implemented.

Mr Starmer's Labor party won a landslide in Thursday's general election, ending 14 years of often tumultuous Conservative rule.

At a press conference on Saturday, Mr Starmer said that "the Rwanda scheme was dead before it started and that it did not stop the flow of migrants".

He added that his government was not prepared to continue with what he called gimmicks, which do not serve to stop the problem.

Tens of thousands of immigrants from Asia, the Middle East and Africa have arrived in Britain in recent years, many of whom leave because of war and poverty.

They arrive mainly via the English Channel in small boats, on dangerous journeys organized by criminal gangs.

Stopping the flow of immigrants was one of the main objectives of the conservative government, but critics had described the so-called plan of Rwanda, inhumane, measuring the danger that this East African country would present to immigrants, due to the indicators of low level of democracy.

Mr Starmer had warned his government would scrap the Rwanda plan once it came to power, but experts say it must offer alternative solutions on immigration, as well as the big concerns facing Britons today, including the cost of standard of living./ VOA





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