Why success of UK-Rwanda asylum deal, frustrates activists, lawyers

Charity organizations’ volunteers have been meeting and welcoming hundreds of migrants sent by traffickers to Britain, from France, pretending to be activists while filling their own pockets and those of others.

Credible sources reveal that charity organizations, a number of lawyers and home owners are gaining from the refugees ‘rescuing plot’. The best example is Care4Calais, which claims to have teams of specially trained volunteers who help vulnerable asylum seekers organise what they need to begin the asylum seeking process.

This so-called refugee charity intervened in the UK-Rwanda asylum seekers’ deal, pretending to be ‘a redeemer’ for the affected migrants but it is not.

“We make the immigration system accessible and fair, providing interpreters, collating paperwork and liaising with legal teams,” claims Care4Calais.

“We signpost them (asylum seekers) to specialist solicitors, we have a team of volunteer interpreters, we help them organise paperwork. We currently work with 40 legal firms around the UK providing an invaluable service to both the asylum-seeker and the overstretched legal immigration teams.” Sources have, however, revealed a murky picture.

First, migrants have to pay a lot of money to cross the English Channel, a narrow waterway between Britain and France, which is one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world. The price to cross the Channel varies according to the network of smugglers, 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 netted $77.7 million for the crossing, or 2 million euros per kilometer, in 2021.

"This has become so profitable for criminals that it's going to take a phenomenal amount of effort to shift it," the U.K. Home Office's Dan O'Mahoney told Parliament on November 17, 2021.

Refugees and migrants risk the dangerous crossing, often in dinghies unfit for the voyage and at the mercy of people smugglers, hoping to claim asylum or economic opportunities in Britain.

Second, ‘activists’ are connecting their clients with lawyers and house owners, and earning from it. The success of the UK-Rwanda asylum seekers 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.

Care4Calais’s volunteers work at more than 140 hotels around the UK where thousands of asylum seekers live at a cost of $5.8 million a day, paid by government.

After collecting more than $100,000 from crowd funding to cover legal fees, the charity was a crucial Government opponent during the legal quarreling in the High Court and Supreme Court to stop an initial 130 migrants being deported to Rwanda in June. It collaborated with the law firm, Duncan Lewis, to contest UK’s plan.

Fear for failure

Among the UK’s top strategies to stop illegal immigrants is the "Migration and Economic Development Partnership Agreement" signed in Kigali on April 14, 2022. It seeks to provide a dignified life to people who leave their countries to seek asylum in the European country. Some will be relocated to Rwanda and empowered through different initiatives.

But the success of this agreement will be a blow to the activists, lawyers, and house owners who make good money from the presence of asylum seekers in the UK. If the deal succeeds, smugglers and traffickers face a big dilemma since the immigrants will no longer cross the Channel en masse while aware they won’t get no home in the UK.

Care4Calais, and others, therefore became vocal critics of the UK’s efforts to stop traffickers’ boats which have brought more than 25,000 migrants across the Channel in 2022, provoking the UK’s biggest-ever illegal migration crisis.

Its founder, Clare Moseley, told reporters: “We know that many people oppose the shockingly brutal Rwanda plan. It is not what the British public wants.”

The Charity is still begging for donations to stop migrants ever being sent to Africa. In an emotive plea, it said: “Help us challenge the shameful Rwanda deal.”

The cancelling of the initial flight to Rwanda, and delaying next ones, is making wages for lawyers who are working tirelessly to prolong legal proceedings.

Many charities including the corrupted Care4Calais left no stone unturned in campaigning for “Stop Rwanda.”

British home owners who fear losing big rental money desperately turned to corrupt Western media and the likes of Care4Calais to make noise, or fabricate lies, claiming that the asylum seekers will not be safe in Rwanda.