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UK-Rwanda deal: A solution to global challenges

2023-05-13 04:40:00

The UK-Rwanda asylum seekers deal is seen as leading the way in finding solutions to global migration challenges. The £140 million ($176 million) deal will see some migrants who enter UK illegally through the English Channel sent to Rwanda if they cannot be deported back to their home countries.

The partnership is designed to tackle the problem of a number of small migrant boats sailing to Britain on unauthorized routes. These crossings have led to the death of thousands of people, with total impunity for the people smugglers.

After the discussion with President Paul Kagame at 10 Downing Street, on May 4, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, said that with migration and economic partnership, the two countries are leading the way in finding solutions for international challenges.

“With our migration and economic partnership, I think [it] shows us leading the way in finding global solutions for shared international challenges,” Sunak said.

The success of the UK-Rwanda deal will leave lessons on how to handle asylum seekers since it will save migrants, and give them dignified lives.

Detractors of the deal have their own benefits and they want the migration crisis to last long. They won’t let go as they are gaining from the refugees ‘rescuing plot’. This is why the success of the deal frustrates those so-called human rights activists.

It is a deadly, but lucrative, business as the migrants pay a lot of money to reach the UK. The price to cross the English Channel varies, according to the network of smugglers, is between $3,380 and $8,000. Reports indicate that the people who collect the money — up to $432,000 per boat that makes it across the narrows of the channel — are not the ones arrested in the periodic raids along the coastline.

At a minimum, smuggling organizations made $77.7 million for the crossing, or Euros 2 million per kilometer, in 2021.

The so-called ‘activists’ are now connecting their clients with lawyers and house owners, and earning from it. The success of the UK-Rwanda deal will become a big loss to them all as well as the people smugglers and traffickers.

The order of events begins with charities facilitating and encouraging illegal migrants to cross the Channel; promising to get them a home in the UK. The process involves lawyers to defend asylum claims while house owners profit from renting out their homes at a high price.

Despite the ill arguments by the detractors targeting to fill their own pockets, they do not propose other solutions. All people who wish the asylum seekers well see this transfer process as a humanitarian act because Rwanda is safe for UK asylum seekers.