In 2022, Britain's ruling Conservative Party announced a controversial solution to handle the migrant flow: Deport them to Rwanda. With the plan finally clearing its last political hurdle last week, fearful migrants in the U.K. are now making another illegal journey, escaping to Ireland and giving the Sunak government another problem to deal with.
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak speaks during a press conference at Downing Street in London, Monday, April 22, 2024. Sunak pledged Monday that the country’s first deportation flights to Rwanda could leave in 10-12 weeks as he promised to end …GUERNSEY, Channel Islands — Like the Central America’s Darien Gap for many immigrants bound for the U.S., the English Channel is a perilous gauntlet illegal migrants seeking to make it into the United Kingdom must run.
The most recent tragedy took place on April 23. After violent and chaotic scenes on the French shore as would-be migrants clashed with each other and French police, massively overloaded rubber boats set off into the gray seas. Five died in the crossing, including a 7-year-old girl. One motivation behind the Tory-sponsored Brexit – the U.K.’s departure from the European Union in 2020 – was to slow migrant flows by reasserting better controls of Britain’s borders. Brexit, however, did not prove the panacea hoped for.
But the Conservative plan also proved immediately controversial. Critics labeled it “people-dumping” and “inhumane,” accusing London of shoving the burden of illegal migrants onto a developing nation. “If people come to our country illegally, but know that they won’t be able to stay there, they are much less likely to come, and that’s why the Rwanda scheme is so important.”“Every country is entitled to have its own migration policy,” said Irish Prime Minister Simon Harris over the weekend. “This country is not in any way shape or form providing a loophole for any other country’s migration policies.
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