Nine months after Sir Keir Starmer, on his first day in Number 10, declared the Tories’ Rwanda deportation scheme “dead and buried,” the White House has reportedly begun the process of relocating immigrants to the African nation after striking a very similar deal.
Ameen had lived in the United States since November 2014, working as an Uber driver in Sacramento before coming to the attention of the authorities. He was arrested four years later after officials rejected his application for permanent legal residence in the United States.
Senior US adviser Massad Boulos visited Rwanda this month (Photo: Paloma Laudet / AFP)The Handbasket reports that at least 10 more people could soon be transferred to Kigali. It is unclear whether any of them is being afforded due process, or whether they are simply being flown out of the country without any access to court hearings and legal appeals.
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Read MoreThe diplomatic cable also reported that the authorities in Kigali were seeking an immediate one-time payment of $100,000 (£75,195) “to support social services, residency documents and work permits”. Rwanda also requested “a bilateral dialogue to develop a durable programme to facilitate these relocations and avoid reinventing the wheel with time-intensive ad hoc negotiations”. The country is specifically offering to accept “third-country nationals” (TCNs) like Ameen who – for a variety of reasons – are unable to return to their country of origin.
The extent of Trump’s Rwanda plan is unclear. Whether he envisages the African nation becoming a second front alongside El Salvador for the deportation of TCNs, or simply a useful destination for a relatively small number of migrants, for the authorities in Kigali, suddenly a more profitable opportunity may be knocking than their scrapped plan with the authorities in London.
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