Ethics aside, how is this cheaper than just doing normal immigration law
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!ping AFRICA
Yolande Makolo, spokeswoman of the Rwandan government, announced on Tuesday that Rwanda had agreed to a “cash-for-refugees” deal with US authorities.
Under the agreement, Rwanda will receive 250 migrants deported from the US, and will “work to resettle them in Rwanda”, providing them with job training, healthcare and housing support, per Makolo, who insisted that Rwanda would have the last word in which people to take in.
The deal is different from previous deals concluded between the Trump administration and third countries like El Salvador, South Sudan or Panama: the individuals to be deported in Rwanda are not detainees who will complete a prison sentence in their country of destination, but migrants who were deemed illegal by US authorities.
Yolande Makolo’s announcement also confirmed a key point of the deal that had until now been denied by the US: Rwanda will receive direct cash transfers – of an unknown amount – for each migrant they accept. Until now, American authorities had claimed the deal was a counterpart to the US facilitating a historic peace deal between Rwanda and the DRC, in June.
While Rwandan authorities have claimed migrants resettled there would have freedom of movement, the international refugee agency UNHCR has raised concerns those migrants could face forced return to countries they fled once in Rwanda. Led by Paul Kagame since 1994, Rwanda routinely faces criticism for its human rights abuses, authoritarian practices, and limits to free speech.
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Ethics aside, how is this cheaper than just doing normal immigration law
!ping AFRICA
Yolande Makolo, spokeswoman of the Rwandan government, announced on Tuesday that Rwanda had agreed to a “cash-for-refugees” deal with US authorities.
Under the agreement, Rwanda will receive 250 migrants deported from the US, and will “work to resettle them in Rwanda”, providing them with job training, healthcare and housing support, per Makolo, who insisted that Rwanda would have the last word in which people to take in.
The deal is different from previous deals concluded between the Trump administration and third countries like El Salvador, South Sudan or Panama: the individuals to be deported in Rwanda are not detainees who will complete a prison sentence in their country of destination, but migrants who were deemed illegal by US authorities.
Yolande Makolo’s announcement also confirmed a key point of the deal that had until now been denied by the US: Rwanda will receive direct cash transfers – of an unknown amount – for each migrant they accept. Until now, American authorities had claimed the deal was a counterpart to the US facilitating a historic peace deal between Rwanda and the DRC, in June.
While Rwandan authorities have claimed migrants resettled there would have freedom of movement, the international refugee agency UNHCR has raised concerns those migrants could face forced return to countries they fled once in Rwanda. Led by Paul Kagame since 1994, Rwanda routinely faces criticism for its human rights abuses, authoritarian practices, and limits to free speech.
Oh boy, now we get to try this idiotic scheme
Is this not human trafficking?