UK plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda sparks fierce criticism
by Rachel Hall from World news | The Guardian on (#5Y5PN)
Politicians, charities and rights groups condemn plans as ill-conceived, inhumane and evil
Politicians have described Priti Patel's plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda evil" and inhumane", amid fierce criticism from refugee charities, which have said the move is ill-conceived.
The government is on Thursday expected to announce multimillion-pound plans for asylum seekers who cross the Channel in small boats to be flown for processing to Rwanda.
Ian Blackford, the Scottish National party's Westminster leader, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: It's just chilling, absolutely chilling, to think that people who are coming here for a whole host of reasons - vulnerable people - are going to be taken all the way to Africa to be processed.