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What the papers say – April 16

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

The Independent UK

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

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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 Independent 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

The Guardian - UK

‘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.

Al Jazeera

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

The Guardian - UK

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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

Daily Mirror

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

The Guardian - UK

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

Chronicle Live

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.

The Independent UK

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.

Radio France Internationale

Top Home Office civil servant raised objections over Rwanda asylum policy

Senior Tories David Davis and Andrew Mitchell also raise concerns over scheme

The Independent UK

Sending UK asylum seekers to Rwanda will save money, claims minister

Claim about long-term benefits disputed by MP Andrew Mitchell who describes reported cost of £30,000 a person as ‘eye-watering’

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Daily Record

Senior Tory MP slams government over 'immoral' plan to send asylum seekers 4,000 miles away to Rwanda

Andrew Mitchell hit out at Boris Johnson's plan saying there were "eye-watering" costs involved in sending people 4,000 miles away.

The Independent UK

UK says Rwanda flights to start in weeks; critics slam plan

The British government says it plans to start putting asylum-seekers on one-way flights to Rwanda within weeks

Chronicle Live

‘Would you live in Rwanda?’: Interview on asylum seeker plan grows heated as GMB’s Adil Ray grills minister

‘If it’s not good enough for you, why is it good enough for a Syrian or Afghan refugee?’ Adil asked the MP

Manchester Evening News

Rwanda plans 'inhumane' amid claims it's cheaper to put asylum seekers in Ritz for a YEAR than send them 4,000 miles to Africa

Critics have lambasted the plans to send asylum seekers to Rwanda

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Evening Standard

Right-wing French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen welcomes Boris Johnson’s Rwanda migrant plan

Ms Le Pen, known for her radical anti-immigrant agenda, said there would be cheaper methods of processing migrants

Daily Record

'Would you live in Rwanda?' Tory minister scolded by GMB host over government's asylum seeker plan

Tom Pursglove was asked repeatedly by Good Morning Britain host Adil Ray if he would live in Rwanda, however he refused to answer the question.

The Independent UK

Sending migrants to Rwanda will save UK money in the long term, says minister

But a senior Tory critic said it would be cheaper to put each migrant up in The Ritz for a year than transfer them to central Africa.

The Independent UK

What is Rwanda’s record on human rights?

Plans to send asylum seekers to the central African nation have sparked fresh concern over alleged human rights abuses

The Independent UK

Rwanda migrants - latest: Boris Johnson’s plan ‘immoral and impractical’, former Tory cabinet minister says

Senior Tory says plan is ‘unworkable’ and will involve ‘astronomical costs’

The Independent UK

Rwanda migrants - latest: Asylum seeker plan will save UK money, minister insists despite £30K cost per person

Senior Tory says plan is ‘unworkable’ and will involve ‘astronomical costs’

Daily Mirror

Kate Garraway forced to apologise for asylum seeker comment on GMB as Adil Ray fumes

Kate Garraway was hosting Friday's edition of Good Morning Britain alongside Adil Ray when she made a self-confessed 'factual error' whilst discussing refugees fleeing Rwanda last year

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