The Rwandans host more than 100,000 refugees on their border who have come over from neighbouring countries such as Burundi and the Congo because of conflict in those countries. They are people from neighbouring countries who have the ambition to go back to their own country as soon as they can, and they live in refugee camps on the border. They are a completely different category from asylum seekers who have sought to come to the UK and who are going to be sent to Rwanda. That is not just my view; that was the view of the UNHCR.
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Joanna Cherry
(Scottish National Party)
in the House of Commons on Monday, 18 March 2024.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill.
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