British parliament approves Rwandan deportation bill

LONDON (AP) British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's latest effort to send some migrants to Rwanda finally won parliamentary approval early Tuesday morning, hours after he promised deportation flights would begin in July.

The congressional gridlock that had stalled the bill for two months was finally broken shortly after midnight when the unelected Senate acknowledged the elected House's primacy and scrapped the last proposed amendment, clearing the way for the bill to become law. .

Earlier in the day, Chancellor Sunak held a rare morning press conference to demand that Lords stop blocking his key proposals to end the flow of migrants crossing the English Channel in small boats, calling for both houses of parliament to meet until they are approved. I promised I would continue. .

The legislative deadlock is just the latest obstacle delaying implementation of a plan that has been repeatedly blocked, contrary to a series of court rulings that human rights activists have called illegal and inhumane. Immigrant advocates have vowed to keep fighting.

For nearly two years our enemies have been using every trick in the book to stop the fight and keep the boats coming, Sunak told reporters in London on Monday morning. But enough. No more preconceptions or delays.

The government plans to deport some of those who entered the UK illegally to Rwanda in a bid to deter migrants risking their lives in leaky inflatable boats in the hope that they will be able to claim asylum once they reach the UK.

Despite parliament's approval of the bill, further court challenges could still delay deportation flights, said Tim Bale, a politics professor at Queen Mary University of London.

I don't think it's necessarily at home and dry, he said. We will see attempts to legally prevent deportation.

Sunak has staked his political future on the deportation flights as a key part of his pledge to voters to stop the boats, with polls showing his Conservatives trailing far behind Labor ahead of a general election later this year. Next week's local elections are expected to be a measure of how each party will perform in the general election.

The debate in Britain comes as countries across Western Europe and North America seek ways to slow the rise in immigration numbers as war, climate change and political repression force people to flee their homes.

Small boat crossings are a strong political issue in Britain, where they are seen as evidence of the government's failure to control immigration.

The number of migrants arriving in the UK by small boat has jumped from 299 four years ago to 45,774 in 2022. That's because refugees paid thousands of pounds (dollars) to criminal gangs to cover the costs of crossing the Channel.

Last year, small boat arrivals fell to 29,437 as the government cracked down on smugglers and agreed to repatriate Albanians to their homeland.

The most important takeaway, I think, is how desperate the government is to get this bill passed because it can at least pay a down payment on its promise to stop boats, Bale said.

Sunak admitted he would not meet his original deadline for the first deportation flights to take off this spring, but blamed the delay on continued resistance from the opposition Labor Party.

On Monday, Chancellor Sunak said the first flights would take off within 10 to 12 weeks, but declined to provide details on how many people would be deported or when exactly the flights would take place. That's because, he said, the information could help opponents continue their attempts to thwart the policy. .

To prepare for approving the legislation, the government has already chartered aircraft for deportation flights, increased detention space, hired more immigration caseworkers and freed up court space to handle appeals, Sunak said.

He also suggested the government was prepared to ignore the European Court of Human Rights if it tried to stop deportations.

“We are ready, we have a plan in place and these flights will go no matter what,” Sunak said. No foreign court will stop us from taking off our flights.

The current bill, known as the Safety of Rwanda Bill, is a response to the UK Supreme Court's decision to block deportation flights on the grounds that the government could not guarantee the safety of migrants sent to Rwanda. After signing a new treaty with Rwanda to strengthen protections for migrants, the government has proposed new legislation to declare Rwanda a safe country.

The bill stalled because of a quirk of the British legislative system. The Senate is tasked with scrutinizing bills approved by the House and suggesting amendments, but does not have the power to block them outright.

As a result, the Rwandan bill bounced between the Senate and the House of Representatives, repeatedly proposing amendments so that it could be rejected by the Senate, which then sent the bill back to the Senate.

Critics of the government's policy declined to comment on what would happen next. James Wilson, director of Detention Action, which campaigns against human rights abuses in the immigration system, urged the public to look past the political deadlock and remember what is at stake.

'Ultimately, the most important thing here is not what's happening inside or outside of Congress,' he told The Associated Press. Ultimately, this is about people. This is about people's lives.

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