People seeking asylum arrested and held ahead of being flown to Rwanda

Well, the local elections are tomorrow, Kieran, and in the run-up we've had almost daily headlines about Rwanda. The latest is that a man whose

asylum

application was rejected by the British government has become the first person to agree to go voluntarily to the East African country. With a resettlement payment of £3,000 now, that particular scheme will of course cost taxpayers much more when taking into account the cost of flight accommodation payments to the Rwandan government, the audit office has raised questions about the profitability of both Rwanda plans because they are separate for that voluntary agreement that the government confirmed today, as we reported yesterday on our program, that they have started arresting and detaining

people

before forced deportations to Rwanda.

Now, for Rishi Sunak with so much at stake after tomorrow's election results, he could come under pressure from the plotters. within his own party he is betting on Rwanda, he believes it is an electoral winner, although polls suggest there is some support, it is more nuanced than this and today the government came under some criticism for releasing a video from the central office with music of those arrests and deportations. and the arrests say this in the week of the local elections amid loud protests the arrests have begun the government has now confirmed what we reported last night on channel 4 news but

people

seeking

asylum

are

being

arrested

and detained before

being

transferred on a plane to Rwanda in about 10 weeks, this is what it looks and feels like in Ifra, we filmed this man surrounded by officers being escorted to a van in handcuffs with three other people on the phone.

Muhammad told me how scared he felt now they told us they would welcome us to Sil Seekers. here the government said its operational teams have been working on PACE to detain people safely and quickly, in contrast to these protest scenes outside immigration reporting centres, the Home Office released this video with music showing officers raiding people's homes and arresting them. The context is not known. Since we don't know who they are, where they will be detained and how many will actually end up on flights to Kigali, the first illegal immigrants to be transferred to Rwanda have been detained following a series of nationwide operations this week.

The minister comes here to be proud of this pathetic and counterproductive TDY fascist nonsense. It is understood that around 5,000 asylum seekers have been identified for deportation, although it is not clear how many Rwanda will initially be able to take in among those who have been told they may be deported. He is a man we call armed. He was working as an intelligence analyst and supporting our Air Force there in Afghanistan and at the British Embassy. He asked not to be identified because he claims he worked in intelligence. Along with British RAF officers, he says he was proud of his work with the coalition to rebuild his country.

It was a rewarding task that we used to do because we had the goal of democracy and stabilizing the country and having a prosperous country, which Unfortunately, this did not happen in the end in the chaos of the Allied withdrawal after the Taliban took power armed, no He was able to catch an evacuation flight, so he fled by land to a neighboring country and applied to come to the UK legally under the Arab scheme. The lawyer confirmed that he did not receive a response for 18 months, so he came here on a small boat across the channel, but then his request was rejected and he received a letter from Rwanda which he legally challenged.

He feels like a betrayal because the government promised something and did something. Quite the opposite and all I ask is that the government fulfills its promise. The government argues that there were legal roots for people under the Arab scheme. So why didn't they wait and go that route? Well actually I agree with the government because they said they are legal rules but they don't work if something exists but it doesn't work what's the point when the Rwanda bill was going through its fraud Journey Through the Lords was partly delayed Due to the issue of Afghan veterans in the end, the government said it would make a concession for those with a credible link to the Afghan Special Forces whose claims would be re-evaluated by an independent body.

It was with some relief that the Prime Minister approved the bill. His political future depends on the controversial plan and he insists that the public is with him people are starving here the homelessness is ridiculous so personally I think it is a good idea to send them to Rwanda there is a lot of anger and shame that my country is doing this our country is doing this and there is a lot of pain and anguish, I am not entirely convinced that everything is the right path to follow. It seems like a very profitable option. The government may well hope that the images of these arrests will be a deterrent and stop the boats like today.

Figures show more than 7,500 people made the dangerous journey in the first four months of this year, a 27% increase on the same period last year. Also, we've been hearing that the government has just sent a failed asylum seeker to Rwanda and paid him £3,000 to go, but how much will it really cost? We have been looking closer and the true cost to British taxpayers is much greater now that this is not the main Rwandan policy that has dominated politics for two years. forcing some asylum seekers to travel to East Africa to have their claims processed there. This is a voluntary scheme for people still in the UK whose applications have already failed.

The government is now offering these people up to £3,000 to move to Rwanda, but the real cost is too much. much more as British taxpayers also pay Rwanda for each individual they take in, this is because people who go to Rwanda by choice can get the same relocation package to Rwanda as those sent by force, accommodation, food , healthcare for up to 5 years, costing the UK taxpayer up to £140,000 for each person who decides to go, we estimate using figures from the National Audit Office, which is on top of the £370 million the government will pay to establish Rwanda's forced and voluntary plans.

Well, the Home Office told us the policy. allows people to be relocated to what it describes as a safe third country where they will receive support. It says expulsion flights to Randa will take off in the next 9 to 11 weeks to deter people crossing the Chish Channel. Thank you. Well, in Dublin. The police have intervened. To clear a tent camp established by asylum seekers, some 200 tents were removed from the city center and their occupants moved to the south of the capital. our foreign affairs correspondent, poric O'Brien, is in Dublin, poric Chris, we are just a few blocks from Here are the Houses of Parliament in Dublin and in recent years a large camp of homeless asylum seekers has developed around the international protection office behind me.

There were about 200 tents there and today Gthean contractors moved in. to clear that site and the operation went smoothly, we have been in that camp quite recently, the conditions had been turbulent, the companies were complaining about it, but the most important thing is that the site was a totemic fruit of the struggle that the Irish government has been having when it comes to managing immigration there are around 1,700 homeless asylum seekers in the Irish State at the moment people the Irish government has struggled to accommodate two large groups of men were taken to two different sites in the outskirts of Dublin Asylum centers on the outskirts of Dublin today One of those sites has been the subject of anti-immigrant demonstrations, so we are alert that this afternoon the backdrop to all of this will be this tense political dispute that we have seen between London and Dublin over the past few days, the minister said.

In fairness here he said that the vast majority of asylum seekers who came to the Republic had arrived via Britain, implying that they did so deterred by the Rwanda effect; although there is a lot of political posturing here from the Irish government's point of view. From their point of view, they can point to Rwanda and say, look, there are higher numbers of visitors, we are struggling to manage it, and of course, from Sunx's bold point of view, with local elections tomorrow, it may look firm on the sovereignty of British borders and of course you can Let's face it, what is a rare victory as far as your policy on Rwanda is concerned, you can say that yes, there is a deterrent effect.

People are leaving the UK and coming to Ireland to claim parri asylum.