Immigration Watch International (2): Boris Johnson to send migrants from the Channel ‘straight to Rwanda’

Friday, April 15, 2022

Boris Johnson to send migrants from the Channel ‘straight to Rwanda’

Migrants crossing the English Channel to seek asylum in the UK will be flown more than 9000 kilometres to Rwanda to have their claims processed offshore.

The new policy will be part of a landmark immigration deal, to be detailed by British Home Secretary Priti Patel, under which thousands of asylum seekers will be relocated to the landlocked east African nation.

It comes as Prime Minister Boris Johnson warns that “vile” people smugglers are “turning the Channel into a watery graveyard” with people “drowning in unseaworthy boats and suffocating in refrigerated lorries”.

Johnson will on Thursday, London time, unveil a series of measures aimed at tackling illegal immigration, including putting the military in charge of operations in the Channel from Friday.

He will also signal moves to end the practice of housing asylum seekers in expensive hotel accommodation and unveil plans for the first purpose-built reception centre in England to hold illegal arrivals.

The immigration blueprint is a key part of plans to relaunch Johnson’s premiership ahead of local elections and after hew was hit by a public backlash over “partygate”.

Patel has come under sustained pressure to cut the number of migrants crossing the Channel in small boats. Already a record 4600 have crossed this year, double the 2021 figure. On Wednesday, 600 migrants reached the UK, the highest number in one day so far this year.

The Channel crisis has been blamed for exacerbating problems at airports by drawing Border Force officers away to handle it.

The plans are modelled on Australia’s offshore processing of asylum seekers in detention centres on the islands of Nauru and Manus, Papua New Guinea.

Alexander Downer, one of the architects of the Howard-era Pacific solution and formerly Australia’s high commissioner in London, has just been appointed by the British government to review the country’s Border Force department.

Ministers have struggled to remove illegal Channel migrants once they arrive in Britain and have been accommodating them in hotels at a cost of £3.5 million ($6 million) a day.

They believe offshore processing will act as a deterrent to migrants who think it is difficult for the UK to remove them

https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/britain-to-send-migrants-from-the-channel-to-rwanda-20220414-p5adgf.html

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Postings from Brisbane, Australia by John Ray (M.A.; Ph.D.) -- former member of the Australia-Soviet Friendship Society, former anarcho-capitalist and former member of the British Conservative party.

Why is "La Raza" the one Spanish term that is NEVER translated in the American mass media? Because translating it would make it a lot less respectable. It means "THE RACE" -- The mixed Hispanic "race" of Mexico. Racism is fine South of the Rio Grande only, apparently.

The "line" of this blog is that immigration should be SELECTIVE. That means that:

1). A national government should be in control of it. The U.S. and U.K. governments are not but the Australian government has shown that the government of a prosperous Western country can be. Up until its loss of office in 2007, the conservative Howard government had all but eliminated illegal immigration. The present Leftist government has however restarted the flow of illegals by repealing many of the Howard government regulations.

2). Selectivity should be based on "the content of a man's character, not on the color of his skin", as MLK said. To expand that a little: Immigrants should only be accepted if they as individuals seem likely to make a positive net contribution to the country. Many "refugees" would fail that test: Muslims and Africans particularly. Educational level should usually be a pretty fair proxy for the individual's likely value to the receiving country. There will, of course, be exceptions but it is nonetheless unlikely that a person who has not successfully completed High School will make a net positive contribution to a modern Western society.

3). Immigrants should be neither barred NOR ACCEPTED solely because they are of some particular ethnic origin. Blacks are vastly more likely to be criminal than are whites or Chinese, for instance, but some whites and some Chinese are criminal. It is the criminality that should matter, not the race.

4). The above ideas are not particularly blue-sky. They roughly describe the policies of the country where I live -- Australia. I am critical of Australian policy only insofar as the "refugee" category for admission is concerned. All governments have tended to admit as refugees many undesirables. It seems to me that more should be required of them before refugees are admitted -- for instance a higher level of education or a business background.

5). Perhaps the most amusing assertion in the immigration debate is that high-income countries like the USA and Britain NEED illegal immigrants to do low-paid menial work. "Who will pick our crops?" (etc.) is the cry. How odd it is then that Australians get all the normal services of a modern economy WITHOUT illegal immigrants! Yes: Before the pandemic, you usually COULD buy a lettuce in Australia for a dollar or thereabouts. And Australia IS a major exporter of primary products.

6). I am a libertarian conservative so I reject the "open door" policy favoured by many libertarians and many Leftists. Both those groups tend to have a love of simplistic generalizations that fail to deal with the complexity of the real world. It seems to me that if a person has the right to say whom he/she will have living with him/her in his/her own house, so a nation has the right to admit to living among them only those individuals whom they choose.

I can be reached on jonjayray@hotmail.com -- or leave a comment on any post. Abusive comments will be deleted.

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Boris Johnson to send migrants from the Channel ‘straight to Rwanda’

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