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Across the globe, compassion for migrants has given way to cruel, performative politics
From Britain and Italy to Tunisia and Pakistan, our leaders crave being seen to be tough as a distraction from their failures at home.
On Wednesday, the UK supreme court will give its verdict on the Rwanda deportation scheme.
- Kenan Malik
- The Guardian
The decision will clearly have a major impact on those who face deportation.
It will have an impact, too, on the political debate about immigration, with government supporters either hailing a victory or bemoaning the treachery of the liberal elite.
But, whatever the decision, it will have little bearing on the “immigration crisis”.
The government itself has acknowledged that, even were the court to deem the scheme legal, and…