Michael Tomlinson, the British Minister responsible for illegal immigration confirmed that the plane carrying immigrants and asylum seekers from the UK to Rwanda will take off in the near future.
Michael Tomlinson confirmed this decision on Sunday in an interview with Trevor Phillips on Sky News, saying that soon immigrants and asylum seekers should be sent to Kigali, The transfer of migrants is included in the five-year agreement Rwanda and the UK signed in April 2022, with the aim of stopping the flow of illegal immigrants, giving away those who profit from this trade that endangers the lives of migrants.
Minister Tomlinson said that this is based on the fact that this week the bill to send migrants and asylum seekers will return to the British Parliament (House of Lords) and re-examine it, and that there is hope that it will be approved. On January 17, 2024, the House of Commons voted for this bill by 320 votes out of 276. Even this next round is the last to approve this bill, which is what the leaders of the United Kingdom show. confidence
This project was voted in the first phase by the MPs after the Government of England and Rwanda renewed the agreement related to the protection of migrants, after the Supreme Court of England had recently invalidated the first agreement.
Tomlinson said: “We want to go ahead and introduce some of the tougher immigration legislation that has never been brought before the House of Representatives. This is the real proof of what we are doing.”
Tomlinson said that this bill is coming back to the Parliament after the members of the Parliament had spent some time in recess after it had previously been considered for two days. He said, “This bill, tomorrow comes back before the Assembly.” He continued: “We are doing everything possible to restore this project of the Rwanda program, so that the plane will be able to take off. That’s my job. That is my responsibility.
Minister Tomlinson, while talking to Kandi and BBC reporter, Laura Kuenssberg, said that the fact that this project is back in Parliament shows that there is a solution to the program related to Rwanda, saying “It means that in the near future the plane can take off.”
The Prime Minister of Great Britain, Rishi Sunak, who continued to struggle with the implementation of this plan, is still waiting for the success and approval of the last level of the British Parliament, after the first one has ended. to confirm his support, through the majority of votes.
