ROME (AP) — Britain’s home secretary on Tuesday touted Britain’s migrant deportation deal with Rwanda as a “new and creative” deterrent to an old and growing problem. But he said he took seriously criticism by the U.N. refugee agency that it violates international law. Home Secretary James Cleverly visited Italy, ground zero in Europe’s migration debate, hours after the U.K. Parliament approved legislation to enable the government to deport some people to Rwanda who enter Britain illegally. The deal, in which Britain will pay Rwanda to process the migrants, is aimed at deterring people from crossing the English Channel from France. It is similar in some basic aspects to Italy’s controversial pact to outsource the processing of asylum-seekers to Italian-run centers in Albania. Human rights groups have said both deals, forged by conservative governments amid anti-migrant sentiment among voters, violate the rights of migrants that are enshrined in international refugee conventions. |
Xi meets Dominican PMChina and U.S. hold military maritime meetingGreen efforts gain more groundXi calls on Hunan to write its chapter in advancing Chinese modernizationChina, Indonesia set to deepen tiesU.S. uses small strategic groups to get its wayBlinken claiming that China is spreading disinformation is in itself disinformation: Chinese FMChina strongly condemns provocative visit of UK politicians to the island of TaiwanGeorgia may limit farm purchases by China 'agent'China strongly opposes Blinken's criticism of Article 23