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Protesters outside the High Court in London demonstrate against the government's Rwanda deportation policy in June 2022
THE Home Office defended its plans to deport asylum-seekers to Rwanda in the High Court today, despite warnings that the African nation is not a safe third country.
Giving evidence in the first High Court challenge to the deal, lawyers for the government department disputed arguments that the policy amounted to “unlawful penalisation” of asylum-seekers.
One told the court that the removal of asylum-seekers to Rwanda and refusal to assess their claims was not being imposed as a punishment.
Britain’s proud asylum history, from sheltering the Kindertransport escaping Hitler to Basque children fleeing fascist Spain, required tireless campaigning against persistent opposition — and it’s up to all of us to do our part today, writes SABINA PRICE
Secret consultation documents finally released after the Morning Star’s two-year freedom of information battle show the Home Office misrepresented public opinion, claiming support for policies that most respondents actually strongly criticised as dangerous and unfair, writes SOLOMON HUGHES