Why Is Our Plan "Unnacceptable"?

[ToraToraTora]

https://news.sky.com/story/rwanda-asylum-plan-is-unacceptable-un-refugee-agency-warns-12591282
We copied the Aussies, their plan was ok. Why is ours any different?

[drmorgans]

People remember the genocide of the mid-90s and think it is a dangerous place to live.

[barry1010]

Anything to do with this report from last year? https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/37th-universal-periodic-review-uk-statement-on-rwanda

[ToraToraTora]

That was some time ago, the place is now a thriving democracy with stromg economic growth. Considered am African success story.

Interesting drmorgans, so it's the place not the idea?

[ToraToraTora]

So is this just about the target location rather than the actual idea of sending them abroad?

[tiggerblue10]

Denmark apparently signed a deal to send their asylum seekers to Rwanda last year but none have been sent there yet. I can't see how any country trying to offload people into potentially unsafe areas is going to work or even get off the ground tbh. Is it a safe country now?

[ToraToraTora]

I'm pretty sure it is considered a safe country now.

[tiggerblue10]

If it is safe then fair enough and I hope it works. My main concern is the welfare of the asylum seekers.

[ToraToraTora]

Tigs, the real aim here is the deterrence factor. I suspect relatively few will actually be sent there because they'll stop paying the people smugglers and stop crossing if they know they'll end up in Rwanda. The news will be getting round the French camps as we speak.

[davebro]

//Why is ours any different?//

We have TROB!

[gulliver1]

Wonder if Boris or any of his kitchen cabinet would like to live there.

[tiggerblue10]

Maybe the human traffickers could be rounded up and sent there...

[drmorgans]

I think Australia was also criticised for "offshoring" its illegal immigrants.

The left / liberals haven't outlined their plan to stop people making the dangerous journey across the Channel and stopping them being exploited by criminal gangs.

[davebro]

According to today's press potential incomers aren't deterred (they don't believe it will happen either!).

[gulliver1]

These days,It's probably safer in Rwanda than the UK.

[ichkeria]

It does, I have to say, sound like an insane idea and I don't really understand how it can possibly work. Not sure you can compare it with the Australian idea and there have been other examples too, which sound more like this particular one, which have not worked.

It'll either nosedive as many predict or prove a stunning success.

[dave50]

I've always wondered about those who say we should welcome all and sundry to our shores, no questions asked, how we is our infrastructure is supposed to cope with them all, they never seem to have an answer.

[ToraToraTora]

why do you think it wont work ich?

[ichkeria]

I'm a bit hazy about how the relative schemes work or would work

Doesn't Australia's involve holding refugees offshore in camps run by Australians.
Where as the Rwanda thing supposedly means certain refugees will be able to apply locally to stay in Rwanda?
They don't sound all that similar to me, other than the headline fact of "shipping 'em off out again"