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Prime Minister Rishi Sunak during a press conference in the Downing Street Briefing Room, London
HUMAN rights campaigners have called on peers to stop playing a “dystopian horror game” and reject the Rwanda Bill ahead of a vote in the Lords on Tuesday.
The Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill, which aims to convince judges that the country is a safe place, has already suffered 10 defeats in the House of Lords and is having its third reading on Tuesday.
If it becomes legislation, it could force courts in Britain to rule that the East African country is not dangerous for asylum-seekers to be sent to despite a previous ruling by the Supreme Court that it is not safe.
A recent Immigration Summit heard from Lord Alf Dubs, who fled the Nazis to Britain as a child. JAYDEE SEAFORTH reports on his message that we need to increase public empathy with desperate people seeking asylum
