Britain’s Sunak vows to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda in 10-12 weeks

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak speaks about his flagship Rwanda migration policy during a news conference in London on Monday. LONDON — British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has staked his political survival on getting planes of asylum seekers off the tarmac and on their way to Rwanda. He will get it done, he vowed Monday, with the first flights airborne in “10 to 12 weeks.”

Sunak has been desperate to claim a victory. The Conservative Party, after 14 years in power, has plummeted in the polls. Unless the political winds change, it could face a clobbering in the general election this year.By midnight the prime minister finally got Parliament to pass his controversial Rwanda bill. The new legislation compels British judges to regard Rwanda as a safe country and gives government ministers the power to ignore emergency injunctions.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson first announced the Rwanda plan in April 2022, hailing it as a new model to discourage illegal migration that would be adopted by other countries. To the prime minister’s great frustration — on display at his news conference Monday at 10 Downing Street — the House of Lords delayed passage of the bill by adding amendments seeking greater guarantees.Sunak charged that peers in the House of Lords, especially those in the opposition Labour Party, “have used every trick in the book” to attempt to stop or slow the bill from passing.

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