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Rwanda-on-Thames: Britain’s asylum proposal

The Intelligence from The Economist

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Is This a New Thing?

The plan will only go into effect once the government has passed a kind of enabling law in parliament. The ostensible rational is that asylum seekers trying to get to britain in little inflatable dingis with the help of people smugglers, is a very dangerous way of going about things. A more realistic reading of it is that it's being done in order to deter people from trying to make the journey at all. Other countrys trataptus like this? Yes, they have. As soon as co struck america, started to simply so to push people back over its southern border,. under guidance from the centres for disease control - which argued that they were a coverdrisque

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