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UK seals deal with Rwanda to offshore asylum seekers

British government insists the policy is ‘humane’ as backlash grows.

LONDON — The U.K. will send asylum seekers who attempt to cross the English Channel to Rwanda for processing, after sealing a £120 million deal with the Rwandan government.

  • Cristina Gallardo
  • Politico

British Home Secretary Priti Patel will sign the agreement this afternoon during a visit to Rwanda’s capital, Kigali, following nine months of negotiations and several failed attempts to reach similar deals with other countries and offshore territories.

Asylum seekers judged by the Home Office to likely be economic migrants would be flown to the Commonwealth country and held in a…

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