Rwanda: refugee plan excoriated

Nicola Laver  |  World
Date posted:  1 May 2022
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Christian leaders have condemned the government’s plans to send illegal asylum seekers 4,500 miles away to Rwanda for processing as unethical.

The announcement of the proposals followed the reaching of a ‘migration and economic development partnership’ between the British and Rwandan governments, costing a reported £21m. Critics have called it ‘state-sponsored people-trafficking’.

In his Easter sermon, Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury, said the plan raised serious ethical questions; and that it amounted to ‘sub-contracting our responsibilities’ and was ‘the opposite of the nature of God’.

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