Tag: migrants

Some 4,000 asylum seekers were deported to Rwanda and Uganda. Many were smuggled back towards Europe, just 9 stayed in the country.

"We’re sending people who try to seek a safe life here in the UK to Rwanda? Is that what we’re doing? Lower than low we are at the top!," Gary Neville said.

"Sending people fleeing from persecution to a dictatorship that repeatedly violates human rights might just be a new low," Sam Freedman said.

The alleged shortcomings by the French and British coastguards were a "regular" occurrence, Utopia 56 said.

"Pushbacks are known to endanger lives at sea. This is even more so when dealing with people on small, unseaworthy vessels, in a busy shipping lane, often with rough waters, without appropriate life-saving equipment."

"What a tw*t", the man recording the footage said.

A group blocked the boat while shouting "don't bring any more of those home, we're full up" and other "horrible stuff".

It goes to she how bad Anglo-French relations have become – and how weak the UK is, the Independent's Sean O'Grady says.

"Go and see Mr Corbyn, he'll help you out", the young migrant was told.