Court Back UK’s Plan To Deport Asylum Seekers To Rwanda

The UK Government’s intentions to send asylum seekers to Rwanda are legal, according to Lord Justice Lewis and Mr. Justice Swift of the High Court, who also dismissed objections to the scheme.

Eight asylum seekers who were scheduled for deportation, however, were granted relief by the court after it determined that the government had erred in each of their specific cases.

The measures, which the then-home secretary Priti Patel touted as a “world-first deal” with the east African country in an effort to dissuade migrants from crossing the Channel, were subject to a number of difficulties, according to the report.

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The first deportation flight, scheduled to depart on June 14, was later grounded due to a number of protests against both the policy as a whole and specific removals. Senior justices, however, rejected claims that the plans to offer one-way tickets to the east African country were illegal today.

Attorneys for numerous asylum seekers, the Public and Commercial Services union (PCS), and the NGOs Care4Calais and Detention Action had argued the measures are illegal and that Rwanda “tortures and murders people it regards to be its opponents” during a five-day hearing in September.

The Home Office disputed the allegations, saying that the memorandum of agreement between the UK and Rwanda guarantees that everyone sent there will have a “safe and effective” refugee status determination procedure.

Judges were informed that as part of arrangements that have cost at least £120 million, people who are deported to Rwanda will be given “appropriate housing,” food, free medical aid, education, language and professional development training, and “integration programs.”

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And in a summary of his ruling, Lord Justice Lewis said on Monday: ‘The court has concluded that it is lawful for the Government to make arrangements for relocating asylum seekers to Rwanda and for their asylum claims to be determined in Rwanda rather than in the United Kingdom.

‘On the evidence before this court, the Government has made arrangements with the government of Rwanda which are intended to ensure that the asylum claims of people relocated to Rwanda are properly determined in Rwanda.’

However, the judge added: ‘However, the Home Secretary must consider properly the circumstances of each individual claimant.

‘The Home Secretary must decide if there is anything about each person’s particular circumstances which means that his asylum claim should be determined in the United Kingdom or whether there are other reasons why he should not be relocated to Rwanda.

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‘The Home Secretary has not properly considered the circumstances of the eight individual claimants whose cases we have considered.

‘For that reason, the decisions in those cases will be set aside and their cases will be referred back to the Home Secretary for her to consider afresh.’

The news is encouraging for Home Secretary Suella Braverman, who has stated that it is her “ultimate goal” to reduce immigration to the UK to tens of thousands and that it would be her “dream” to send a flight of Channel migrants to Rwanda.

Enver Solomon, CEO of the Refugee Council, expressed his disappointment with the verdict, calling it “extremely unfair.”

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‘Treating people who are in search of safety like human cargo and shipping them off to another country is a cruel policy that will cause great human suffering,’ he said.

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