Guardian News – Mar 18, 2023
The home secretary toured a housing facility in Rwanda that is being built to provide accommodation for asylum seekers deported from the UK. Britain agreed to send tens of thousands of people to Rwanda as part of a deal last year but no flights have taken off after the policy was challenged in court. The deal is part of the government’s wider plans to deport asylum seekers arriving in small boats across the Channel. Critics say the approach is impractical and could criminalise the efforts of thousands of genuine refugees