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UK-Rwanda deal: A solution to global challenges
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.
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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.
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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.