UK announces controversial plan to send asylum-seekers to Rwanda
CNN
People seeking asylum in the UK could now be relocated to Rwanda under a controversial new scheme blasted by international human rights groups as "shockingly ill-conceived" and contrary to international obligations.
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson called the scheme an "innovative approach, driven by our shared humanitarian impulse and made possible by Brexit freedoms," on Thursday, saying that with the UK's help, Rwanda will have the capacity to resettle "tens of thousands of people in the years ahead."
Speaking at a joint news conference in the Rwandan capital Kigali on Thursday, UK Home Secretary Priti Patel said that people relocated to Rwanda "will be given the support including up to five years of training, integration, accommodation, health care, so that they can resettle and thrive."