Britain could send tens of thousands of asylum seekers to Rwanda to be resettled under a new partnership, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said as he outlined measures designed to tackle the problem of cross-Channel migration
"We must ensure that the only route to asylum in the UK is a safe and legal one," Johnson said in a speech on Thursday in Kent, southeast England, where thousands of migrants in small boats landed on Channel beaches last year.
The plan drew swift and strong criticism from opposition parties, with interior minister Priti Patel's Labour party counterpart, Yvette Cooper, saying it was "extortionate as well as unworkable and unethical". "When we were discussing this partnership, we assessed our capacity to receive migrants and we know that we have the capacity in a place to receive migrants but we are also investing in infrastructure going forward," Biruta said.
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