Conservative Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has made a bill aimed at deporting illegal migrants to Rwanda the cornerstone of his policy to combat illegal immigration.
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The British government’s bill to deport illegal migrants to Rwanda undermines fundamental human rights principles, the UN said on Monday (February 19). “The combined effects of this bill, which attempts to shield government action from normal legal scrutiny, run directly counter to fundamental human rights principles.”said the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, in a statement.
Conservative Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has made this text the basis of his policy to combat illegal immigration and hopes to be able to implement it before the legislative elections scheduled for this year. In mid-January, he called it “urgent national priority”.
This very controversial piece of legislation is criticized by both the head of the Anglican Church and the United Nations. And last week, a British parliamentary committee judged the project “fundamentally incompatible” with the country’s human rights obligations.
