Patel’s ‘abhorrent’ Rwanda plan breaks international law, UN says
The UNHCR condemned the UK's controversial new plan as "unacceptable" and "abhorrent".
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Furious responses as Patel brags about sending asylum seekers to Rwanda
"I don’t think I’ve ever felt so bleak to my bones," wrote Armando Iannucci.
Israel tried deporting asylum seekers to Rwanda in 2014 – it failed spectacularly
Some 4,000 asylum seekers were deported to Rwanda and Uganda. Many were smuggled back towards Europe, just 9 stayed in the country.
Watch: Minister denied UK would send refugees to Rwanda just 8 days ago
"We're having difficulty enough getting them from Ukraine to our country, there's no possibility of sending them to Rwanda," he said.
Reaction floods in to Govt’s ‘barbaric’ offshore processing plans
"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.
Patel arrives in Rwanda to unveil government’s new offshore processing centre
"Sending people fleeing from persecution to a dictatorship that repeatedly violates human rights might just be a new low," Sam Freedman said.
Sabina Nessa’s family would have been treated better if white Brits, sister says
Priti Patel is using Nessa's name "for publicity reasons", the murdered teacher's sister said.
Watch: Priti Patel’s claim about Ukrainian visas destroyed with just one line
One NHS nurse said: “I’m basically on my hands and knees, begging," for the govt to allow refugees to come to UK to stay with her.
House of Lords ‘revolutionaries’ tear holes in Patel’s immigration bill
Conservative Lord Cormack described the bill as “largely unnecessary, narrow, mean-minded" and “in danger of breaching not just international law but also international humanity”.