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Today, Explained

Boris Johnson presents: Motel Rwanda

Today, Explained

Vox

Politics, Daily News, News

4.3 • 10.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

The British government will deport UK-bound migrants to Rwanda. It’s part of a larger trend of rich countries offloading asylum seekers to poorer countries. This episode was produced by Haleema Shah, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and Tori Dominguez, engineered by Paul Mounsey, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained   Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson kicked off the week with what looked like a diminishing

0:07.0

degree of confidence.

0:09.0

There's also some breaking news from London tonight where Boris Johnson has narrowly

0:12.5

survived a vote of no confidence by his words.

0:14.9

That means, at least for now, he can get back to business as usual, which in his case

0:18.7

means deporting migrants to Rwanda.

0:22.0

Those who have arrived illegally since January 1st may now be relocated to Rwanda.

0:29.3

If you're some poor Syrian, fleeing a president who might want to murder you, maybe get to

0:34.4

France, use a paddle boat to make your way to the United Kingdom and hope to plead for

0:38.7

asylum, you can get a letter in the mail and it might just say you're being sent to Rwanda.

0:44.6

Why?

0:45.6

The UK is trying to send asylum seekers to Rwanda and whether the wealthy governments of

0:50.4

the world are just kind of done with asylum altogether.

0:54.1

Ahead on today's explained.

1:08.1

Today's explained, Sean Roms from Boris Johnson, survived no confidence vote on Monday.

1:13.9

That means his government can get back to governing Britain.

1:17.3

What are its plans there?

1:19.0

Tafi Musadeek, Britain correspondent at the Christian Science Monitor, is here to explain.

1:33.3

It's offloading immigrants.

1:41.3

The UK has landed in Britain from France via tiny dingy and boats.

1:56.8

And essentially deporting them to Rwanda, which is what many legal campaigners say contravenes

2:04.7

human rights.

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