New UK home secretary backs UK Rwanda asylum deal

After a month in office, Britain Home Secretary, Suella Braverman, has addressed the migration issues in UK, saying that the country wants to take back control of immigration and asylum laws from the European Court of Human Rights which challenged the UK-Rwanda asylum seekers’ plan.

In June, the court blocked the first flight of asylum seekers to Rwanda.She insisted that the UK will not allow a foreign court to undermine the sovereignty of their country’s border.

“A few months ago the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg did just that. By a closed process, with an unnamed judge, and without any representation by the UK. A European Court overrode our Supreme Court. And as a result our first flight to Rwanda was grounded. We need to take back control,” she said.

"We need to find a way to make the Rwanda scheme work” Braverman said during Conservative Party's conference, on October 4.

The UK is vulnerable to a high number of migrants who keep flowing into the country in an illegal, dangerous and unauthorized manner through the English Channel. Their illegal movements have been a successful business scheme to organized crime gangs which facilitate them to cross the channel in small boats or hidden in lorries.

In 2021, Britain received a total of 28,526 migrants who had crossed the Channel, up from 8,404 in 2020. In August 2022, more than 22,560 people journeyed across the Channel. The number is expected to rise to 60,000 at end of 2022.

The increase of asylum seekers cost British taxpayers five million pounds a day, as they are accommodated in hotels paid by the UK government and also get funds and living allowances from the government.

To tackle the issue, UK approached Rwanda and signed a deal, in April. Both countries agreed to relocate the migrants who arrive in UK illegally, to Rwanda. Under the deal, the migrants will get full protection under Rwandan law, equal access to employment, healthcare and social care services.

Right after signing the deal, the International media, academics and rights groups blindly characterized the UK-Rwanda partnership as echoing and troubling colonial practice of moving people across continents without their consent.

As a result, the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg blocked the first relocation flights of asylum seekers to Rwanda minutes before the scheduled take-off on June 14.

The court ruled that migrants will be relocated after a completion of judicial review of the UK-Rwandan Agreement by the UK High Court. The ruling required UK courts to stop all flights scheduled to Rwanda under the agreement.

However, Braverman has made UK’s stand clear, and strongly opposed the court’s ruling: “If you deliberately enter the United Kingdom illegally from a safe country, you should swiftly be returned to your home country or relocated to Rwanda. UK policy on illegal migration should not be derailed by the abuse of our modern slavery laws, Labor’s Human Rights act or orders of the Strasbourg Court.”

This comes as bad news to imposter charity organizations, their volunteers, as well as unscrupulous lawyers and hotel owners. The latter are against the deal while pretending to pity the migrants yet they are profiting from their plight.

With Braverman in the UK Home Office, they will lose.