Will the U.K. Send Asylum Seekers To Rwanda?

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🗓️ 2 July 2024

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After a steep increase in migration, the United Kingdom turned to a controversial plan: sending migrants to Rwanda. But the plan has faced years of delays and legal challenges. Max Colchester explains why the U.K. pushed ahead, and what Rwanda stands to gain. Further Reading: - Britain’s Radical Plan to Tackle the Migrant Crisis Turns Into a Cautionary Tale Further Listening: - Smuggling Migrants Toward the U.S. Is a Booming Business - Texas Took On Border Security. Is It Working? - What the End of Title 42 Means for U.S. Immigration Policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Over the past six years, thousands of migrants have crossed the English Channel,
0:10.0	the waterway between France and the UK.
0:13.0	Where are you from?
0:15.0	From Sudan.
0:18.0	From Sudan. And you got from Paris.
0:21.0	Where have you come from? Where have you come from?
0:23.0	You come from.
0:25.0	You are not the other son.
0:28.0	You are put in a boat that's about nine foot long,
0:32.0	that's made of the same material as a children's bouncy castle and you get on this boat and you chug across the channel.
0:42.0	That's our colleague Max Colchester. the boat
0:45.0	the water's water and you know the boat leaks water and you effectively wait until you get into British waters and you
0:50.0	effectively wait until you get into British waters and then you hope you're rescued.
0:57.2	Boats full of migrants used to be a rare sight in the English channel, but not anymore.
1:02.0	In 2018 you had around 300 people. English Channel, but not anymore.
1:02.6	In 2018 you had around 300 people who arrived on British shore and suddenly that number
1:10.0	then exploded and reached 45,000 people in 2022 and has stayed pretty high ever since and
1:19.9	has since become a major headache for the British government.
1:23.0	In response to this explosion in asylum seekers,
1:27.0	the UK government tried different ways to discourage migrants from coming.
1:31.0	And in 2022, it unveiled a new plan. The UK decided to try and
1:37.8	make the UK as unappealing a destination as possible for asylum seekers arriving illegally.
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