2024-01-17 22:07:12
Published17. January 2024, 11:07 p.m
Migration: British House of Commons approves law for deportations to Rwanda
In the British House of Commons on Wednesday evening, 320 MPs voted to allow migrants to be deported to Rwanda. This meant that Prime Minister Rishi Sunak avoided defeat.
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Great Britain’s Prime Minister Rishi Sunak pushed the law through despite great resistance.
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One of his opponents, Jeremy Corbyn from the Labor Party, took a position once morest the bill.
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Many members of the public also expressed their dissatisfaction with the law.
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The British House of Commons approved the draft law for deportations to Rwanda in the evening.
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In doing so, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak also prevailed once morest resistance within his own party.
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A previous version of the law was declared inadmissible by the Supreme Court.
Great Britain’s Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has prevailed once morest internal party resistance in the dispute over his country’s asylum policy. A new law aimed at enforcing deportations to Rwanda, East Africa, received the necessary votes in parliament on Wednesday evening. 320 MPs voted for the bill, 276 voted once morest it.
The British government wants to deport people who come into the country without the necessary papers to Rwanda, regardless of their origin. They should apply for asylum there; there are no plans to return to Great Britain.
Rwanda should be declared a safe third country
The highest court in Great Britain had previously criticized this as inadmissible. The government now wants to declare the East African state, which critics accuse of human rights violations, a safe third country by law. This is intended to prevent a judicial review of the planned deportations as far as possible.
This didn’t go far enough for the right wing of Sunak’s Conservative Party; some also wanted to make appeals to international courts impossible. Moderate forces in the party rejected this – for fear of breaking international agreements. In the next step, the law will now go to the British House of Lords, which is the second chamber in the legislative process.
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