Stop Tory offshore asylum ploy
Refugees and asylum-seekers hold up banners during a protest at the Manus Island immigration detention centre in Papua New Guinea On 13 April, the government announced a raft of anti-refugee measures, including a deal to remove many asylum seekers from the UK to Rwanda. It is even worse than a plan to outsource processing of refugees to offshore detention camps. It will deport them to Rwanda to claim asylum there, allowing them no possibility of settling in Britain. Other announcements include putting operations relating to small refugee boats in the Channel under military command, and a new...