00:00UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has finally got his pet Rwanda bill through, but this
00:09is a piece of legislation that should actually put his government and the UK to shame.
00:14Essentially, it means that those illegal migrants that are trying to come into the UK actually
00:20can't come into the UK.
00:22They will be sent to Rwanda in Africa for processing, and they may either then choose
00:27to stay in Rwanda or any other third country, but they cannot seek shelter in the United
00:32Kingdom.
00:34This is particularly cruel because when you look at the kind of people who are trying
00:38to actually enter Britain's borders, many of these people are fleeing war zones, they're
00:44fleeing persecution, they're fleeing conflict, and they're willing to put their lives at
00:49risk in order to somehow get a better life in the West.
00:54We've seen many of these small boats that are ferrying these illegal migrants from France
00:59to the UK.
01:01Some of them have sunk.
01:02Many migrants have died in the process.
01:05And that shows you just how desperate they are to turn people like this away and just
01:11push them into Rwanda, which itself has such a terrible human rights record, is particularly
01:15cruel.
01:16Clearly, Mr. Sunak is hoping that by ratcheting up the rhetoric on illegal migration ahead
01:23of the general elections in the UK later this year, he can actually somehow save the
01:28Tories, that's his party, from an overwhelmingly embarrassing defeat.
01:32But it really does bring into question his leadership.
01:36The moral issues are very, very strong here.
01:38But there are also policy issues as well, as experts point out, this is not something
01:43even at a policy level that they feel is the right way to go.
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