David Njoku

Genuine question about #UKPolitics:

The #Tory #Rwanda policy is performative cruelty: inhumane, unworkable, expensive.

But why do people think it won't work as a deterrent?

Of course it won't deter a desperate person from leaving war-torn Afghanistan or Syria, but it doesn't need to do that. It just needs to deter them from taking that last leg of the journey from France to Britain. Wouldn't it do that?

(For non-Brits, the govt wants to deport all illegal immigrants to Rwanda.)

Apr 28, 2024 at 10:35amWeb
Show threadRoberto von ArchimboldiApr 28, 2024
@davidnjoku my sense is that people are optimists. They think that it won't happen to them. They will largely be right. The sea is a bigger risk than Rwanda and that has not put people off. Good luck to them, I say
Show threadDavid NjokuApr 28, 2024
@RobertoArchimboldi I'd even imagine that immigrants are even more optimistic than the average person. But I don't know why they'd leave one rich country (France) to go to another rich country when there's the potential of losing everything again. The only reasons I can think of are family already in Britain and/or language.
Show threadRoberto von ArchimboldiApr 28, 2024

@davidnjoku those are big ones, but also people, in my experience, have a strong preference about where they wish to rebuild their life in exile.

Ibrahima Bah, the poor kid who was found criminally liable for deaths of four people in the Channel when the boat he was driving went down, had decided that he wanted to claim asylum in the UK because that is where he wanted to live. He is Senegalese so would have had some ties to France. It isn't crazy. You have to decide where you want to make your future

Show threadAngus MacPhersonApr 28, 2024

@davidnjoku

Effective deterrent to this policy: France does the same for illegal British immigrants