On May 1, British police began detaining migrants who came to Britain illegally and were selected for the first wave of deportations to Rwanda. This is reported by the media with reference to the statement of the Ministry of the Interior. The Conservatives, led by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, passed a controversial law in April to allow the process.
The Interior Ministry released video on Wednesday showing officers entering homes, taking people out in handcuffs and loading them into the back of a secured police van. According to Sunak, the first planes with migrants from Britain to Rwanda are scheduled to depart at the turn of July and August, and this transfer should operate regularly from the summer.
The approved law allows the deportation process to be challenged in court if the person faces “a real, imminent and foreseeable risk of serious and irreversible harm if transferred to Rwanda”. According to British media, it can be expected that the government will have to contend with lawsuits filed on behalf of individual migrants at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). The court oversees compliance with the European Convention on Human Rights, which regulates, among other things, the legal status of refugees.
Home Secretary James Cleverly said after the standard was approved that the law would preserve the right to seek asylum. However, his office has already identified a group of migrants whose claims, according to him, are legally unjustifiable, and is preparing to deport them.
Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper called the plan an “extraordinarily expensive ploy”; according to the Independent server, the government has already allocated 290 million pounds (8.5 billion crowns) to the program and will spend another 100 million on it over the next two years.
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