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This was not just a bad day for the government in losing the
case, but also a bad day for the government in illustrating the potentially
terrible consequences of its immigration policy.
The Illegal Migration Act no longer makes sense without
somewhere to send those arriving in small boats. We await clarity on what
happens to that.
The implicit conclusion from today’s judgement must be that the
Rwanda plan could well have meant genuine refugees who’d asked for asylum in
the UK ending up back where they came from being tortured and killed.
Even after the UK signed its deal with the Rwandan government,
the justices say the East African state was sending asylum seekers to the
countries from which they fled.
Throughout and despite that evidence, the prime minister and
other ministers were insisting Rwanda was safe.
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