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Rwanda genocide orphans to be booted out of home to make way for UK asylum seekers

Orphans of Rwanda’s civil war say they have nowhere to go after being turfed out of a hostel under Priti Patel's cruel Rwanda refugee scheme

Daily Mirror

'Boris Johnson's Rwanda policy exploits the vulnerable as he tries to save his own skin'

The Rwanda policy took the front pages away from the fact the PM has been fined for breaking the law, making him the first to get a criminal sanction while in office

Daily Mirror

UK’s Rwanda plan might not deter migrants, top official says

The United Kingdom government’s push to send some asylum seekers to Rwanda may not deter enough migrants to make the effort cost effective, the Home Office official charged with assessing the plan said Saturday.

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UK immigration policy ‘about saving this Government’s skin’, says charity

Priti Patel unveiled the Government’s new direction over immigration this week.

The Independent UK

'Cheaper to put asylum seekers in the Ritz hotel' How much the government's controversial Rwanda deal will cost

Each migrant sent to Rwanda is expected to set British taxpayers back up to £30k

Wales Online

Priti Patel could face Home Office mutiny over Rwanda asylum plan

Unions say civil servants could stage mass walkouts after home secretary overruled their concerns

The Guardian - UK

Priti Patel’s ‘unworkable’ Rwanda plan ‘may breach Geneva convention on refugees’

Former child refugee Alf Dubs said the plans would face opposition in the Lords.

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‘Awful’ Rwanda plan condemned by peer and former child refugee who says it’s ‘unlikely’ to happen

‘As soon as they try and remove one person, I’m sure there’ll be a legal challenge, and I’m not sure the government will win,’ says Lord Alf Dubs

The Independent UK

Government's Rwanda plan may 'breach Geneva conventions on refugees'

Labour peer Alf Dubs said ministers would face opposition in the Lords over the plan

Wales Online

Government’s Rwanda plan may breach Geneva conventions on refugees, says peer

Former child refugee Alf Dubs said the plans would face opposition in the Lords.

The Independent UK

Refugee campaigners to stage Say No To Offshore Detention protest in Glasgow's George Square

Groups are to demonstrate in the city centre against "cruel and immoral" plans to send asylum seekers crossing the Channel thousands of miles away to Rwanda.

Glasgow Live

Peers will fight UK government’s ‘awful’ Rwanda plans, says Lord Dubs

Exclusive: Alf Dubs, former child refugee, says sending asylum seekers to Rwanda is effectively ‘state-sponsored trafficking’

The Guardian - UK

Refugee who fled torture in Rwanda attacks UK asylum deal

Journalist who sought safety in Britain still in fear for his life after his paper criticised President Kagame

The Guardian - UK

What the papers say – April 16

Reaction to the Government’s Rwanda plan is splashed across some of the Saturday papers.

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Patel says Rwanda plan a blueprint to follow despite reports of Home Office row

The Cabinet minister is said to have been forced to overrule civil service concerns about the asylum proposal.

The Independent UK

Priti Patel believes Rwanda migrants deal could be model for other countries

She thinks the move could now prompt Denmark to strike a deal with Rwanda after years of negotiations.

The Independent UK

UK’s Rwanda asylum plan breaches international law, says UN refugee agency

The UNHCR ‘strongly condemns’ policy of sending migrants who arrive in Britain unlawfully more than 4,000 miles to Africa

The Guardian - UK

‘I will die here, I can’t go back to Africa’: migrants respond to Rwanda removal

Asylum seekers say there is no freedom in Rwanda and fear for their lives if sent to Africa

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Al Jazeera

‘Inhumane’: UK plan to send refugees to Rwanda sparks criticism

Human rights groups slam a $156m trial scheme to offload thousands of refugees to Rwanda.

The Guardian - UK

UN refugee agency condemns Boris Johnson’s Rwanda asylum plan

Gillian Triggs, assistant high commissioner at UNHCR, says plan is ‘symbolic gesture’ that will prove unworkable

Daily Mirror

Sending asylum seekers to Rwanda will provoke punch ups at airports, says minister

Sending asylum seekers to Rwanda will cause punch ups at airports, says minister

The Guardian - UK

Plans to offshore asylum seekers to Rwanda are cruel and disturbing

Letter: Rabbis and members of Britain’s Jewish community call on the government to abandon its policy proposal and fulfil its duty to protect, not punish, those fleeing persecution

Chronicle Live

GMB host Kate Garraway forced to apologise after asylum seeker comment

An interview with the Minister for Justice and Tackling Illegal Migration Tom Pursglove got rather heated on Friday's Good Morning Britain

The Independent UK

UK’s Rwanda asylum plan policy against international law, says UN

The UNHCR said it ‘strongly condemns’ the plan to send migrants who arrive in Britain unlawfully, to Africa.

Radio France Internationale

UN, rights groups alarmed over British refugee deal with Rwanda

The UNHCR and human rights groups have voiced their opposition to a deal signed bewteen London and Kigali that would see thousands of illegal migrants in the UK resettled in Rwanda, or returned to their country of origin.

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