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[–] gedhrel@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The plan rather blurred "illegal immigrant" and "legitimate asylum seeker".

[–] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah, we've had some of that over here too.

[–] gedhrel@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

The government plan was struck down by the high courts here because Rwanda was not a suitable destination according to the ECHR.

The (previous) government's response was (a) to pass a law declaring that it was a safe destination; (b) to look to limit the ability of the courts to rule on the legality of government policy.

They really were unconscionably unpleasant fuckers.