The British government has announced that it is abandoning its plan to convert a former air base in the county of Yorkshire to house asylum seekers. This is London’s latest reversal in its policy of combating illegal immigration.
With our correspondent in London, Emily Wine
The Minister of Defense says: have other obligations for using the site, an old airbase in the north of England, and therefore withdrawing its bid to the Home Office. The now ex-future accommodation center was to be inspired by camps on the Greek islands and house around 1,500 migrants before deporting them to Rwanda to seek asylum there.
The scheme had been unanimously opposed in the town of Linton-on-Ouse, including by the constituency’s Tory MP who called it ” scandalous “. Its abandonment by the Ministry of Defense seemed inevitable since the two candidates to succeed Boris Johnson, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunakannounced that in the event of victory, they would renounce it.
The migratory partnership with Rwanda should make it possible to stop crossings of the Channel and to target the networks of smugglers, but the relocations are for the moment suspended by court decisions. Since April and the announcement of this new policy, 13,000 people have arrived on English shores.
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