Boris Johnson's government is offloading immigrants in rowanda. Bo schelton says that this will save lives from human trafficking, ind people smuggling gangs. But roandens on the ground are very sceptical about how many migrants might get sent to rande. Almost as many afghans have crossed the u kuary channel from france and march than last year.
The British government will deport UK-bound migrants to Rwanda. It’s part of a larger trend of rich countries offloading asylum seekers to poorer countries.
This episode was produced by Haleema Shah, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and Tori Dominguez, engineered by Paul Mounsey, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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