Rebecca Schoenkopf: I take back what I said about don't be mean to the British dork about liking "sandwiches"

I take back what I said about don't be mean to the British dork about liking "sandwiches"

For years, Sunak's plan has been to send all undocumented migrants who show up in the UK, wherever they come from, to Rwanda.

I am naturally inclined to a little sympathy for the way the Tories left the non-white, non-Christian guy holding the bag, but also he embraced all the worst things about the party (Rwanda deportations, tried to kill the country's climate mitigation plan, etc) and he's a weird billionaire, fk him.

This has been the plan for years, although I don't know if any people actually were sent there. Initially it was blocked because Rwanda was found to be an unsafe country to send refugees to, so they changed the law to call Rwanda safe.

UK passes bill to send asylum seekers to Rwandawww.theguardian.com Lawyers prepare for legal battles on behalf of individual asylum seekers challenging removal to east Africa

They eventually pushed the plan through despite the sane people calling it cruel and dishonest and the courts calling it illegal and every analyst calling it fiscal insanity, just got Parliament to say nope to all that. They then symbolically deported one volunteer, after which I think no-one else.

Britain sends first voluntary asylum seeker to Rwanda, Sun newspaper sayswww.reuters.com Britain has sent its first asylum seeker to Rwanda under a voluntary scheme, The Sun Newspaper reported on Tuesday, saying the unnamed migrant was flown out of the country on Monday.

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