As border policies become stricter and stricter, people essentially get funnelled along more danger routes. Australia has a really infamous offshore detention policy where it useds islands to detain people. The ukis definitely taking hues from other countries. In a 70 to 24 vote, politicians agree to move asylum seekers who arrive on danish soil to a reception senter in a third country outside europe. Denmark had a similar deal with rowanda in the works prior to the uk Deal. It's now likely to implement that. And we know that uk Home secretary pretipatal has consulted with australian leaders who have implemented their off shore detention policy.
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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