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Rishi Sunak has passed his law on the expulsion of illegal migrants to Rwanda and wants to launch an arrest operation on April 29, 2024, says “The Guardian”.
INTERNATIONAL – London wants to move quickly, very quickly. According to information from The Guardian this Sunday, April 28, the British government plans to launch a wave of arrests of migrants from Monday, in order to send them to Rwanda in the coming weeks. This is much earlier than expected.
This is the consequence of the law adopted a few days earlier by Parliament, which authorizes the authorities to send migrants who arrived illegally in the United Kingdom to Rwanda, a country considered ” on “. This notion has been called into question, and the law has been widely criticized for two years now.
The operation planned for Monday must be launched by the Ministry of the Interior (Home Office) and should last two weeks, specifies the British daily. Those arrested will then be held in detention centers until the planes take off for Rwanda, normally this summer.
An operation launched just before key elections
The date of this operation is not chosen at random, according to the Guardian. Local elections are being held on Thursday May 2, and the conservatives who are struggling want to launch this punch action to regain the advantage against Keir Starmer’s Labor.
Indeed during the elections, the Tories could lose half of the seats to the opposition. A hard blow a few months before the general election for Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and the Conservatives, who risk losing 10 Downing Street to the left.
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