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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.