In just a week, we've seen seven and a half thousand people soy that they want to open their homes to welcome refugees. It's come at a time when sentiment against migrants has suddenly come more positive because of the war in ukraine. Britons have opened arms to cranians. But are you saying eucranians aren't going to get sent to roanda? I'm highly skeptical. In the migrant camps in calais, which is on the coast of northern france, facing england, there were a few ucranians there,. but ucranian there were targeted and taken away and put ahead of the pack and told to come to britain.
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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