Great Britain wants to send illegal migrants to Rwanda by plane
Single male migrants who apply for asylum in Great Britain after crossing the Mediterranean Sea and the Channel are to be taken out of the country again in the future, by plane to Rwanda. Australia introduced similar treatment for migrants under a Labor government ten years ago. There, illegally arriving asylum seekers have to carry out their asylum procedure from New Guinea or Nauru. This has pushed the number of applicants down very sharply and almost brought them to a standstill.
Last year, the threat of the Social Democratic government in Denmark to outsource asylum procedures to Rwanda led to a slump in the number of applicants. The idea for this outsourcing to Rwanda came from the Danish Immigration Minister Mattias Tesfaye, the son of a refugee from Ethiopia. Denmark has been pursuing the goal of zero immigration for several years. By outsourcing the asylum procedure to Rwanda, it is hoped that this goal will come a step closer.
Previous methods have been unsuccessful
In the UK, reactions to the outsourcing of the asylum process have been mixed. Human rights groups and the Anglican Church expressed dismay. But a large part of the population agrees.
In Scandinavia, the immigration wave triggered by Angela Merkel in 2015 was a real trauma for some time. Since then, civil war-like conditions have prevailed in Malmö, Sweden, actually a suburb of the Danish capital Copenhagen. Muslim youth gangs terrorize Jewish survivors of the Shoah. They have entire neighborhoods under their control. People are shot dead on the street almost every week.
Rwanda, on the other hand, has been a model of security and democracy not only for Africa since it mastered the genocide in 1994 in an exemplary manner. No other country in the world is as involved in international UN mandates as Rwanda.
Uncontrolled migration was one of the central issues when Great Britain left the European Union. While Prime Minister Boris Johnson has stepped up to make immigration a British affair again, illegal immigration across the Channel has increased every year since he took office, despite bilateral deals with France and tightened domestic laws such as the use of the Marine.
Rwanda is very Anglophile
Rwanda is extremely pro-England. In 2009, after Mozambique, it was the second country in the world to voluntarily join the Commonwealth, although it was never a British colony. French was replaced by English as the national language. With this step, the country also wants to come to terms with its unfortunate Francophone past and the 1994 genocide.
Rwanda has contractually committed to subject migrants in its country to an asylum procedure that meets international standards. Britain will pay Rwanda £120 million (around €144 million) for it. Initially, only men traveling alone are affected by the regulation, not women or families with children.
Analysts see the agreement between Great Britain and Rwanda primarily as a measure to prevent migrants from boarding boats on the English Channel in France and risking the life-threatening crossing to England. As far away as Germany, inflatable boats had become scarce as a result of the enormous increase in demand. If, in the future, a successful crossing of the English Channel means finding yourself in Rwanda, many will probably reconsider crossing the Channel in unseaworthy boats. That could save lives.
Source: Preußische Allgemeine Zeitung
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