Voices: Rwanda scheme ‘costly totem’ that ‘blurs lines’ between illegal and legal migration, say Independent readers
Two years on and Priti Patel and Boris Johnson’s Rwanda plan remains stalled in Parliament.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and the House of Lords keep clashing over amendments - but Independent readers are largely united in their view that the scheme should be scrapped altogether.
The immigration policy, first proposed in April 2022, would see asylum seekers relocated to Rwanda for processing and resettlement.
However, legal challenges have so far prevented anyone being sent to the East African country.
With so much back-and-forth on the Rwanda scheme, we asked if you felt the plans are the best way to tackle the challenges faced by the UK asylum system.
The overwhelming majority of readers were keen to see the plans axed, labelling it “ridiculous”, a “costly totem” and “another Brexit failure”.
The comments came as the United Nations Human Rights Committee urged Britain on Thursday to abandon the contentious bill. The committee said it was calling on the British government to withdraw the bill or repeal it
