Protests in GB against arrests of migrants heading to Rwanda

(see report at 4.59pm) (ANSA) – LONDON, 02 MAY – An iron fist from the British police in London against groups of young people and human rights activists who were trying to hinder the detention of some migrants: asylum seekers who arrived illegally on the English coasts and candidates from Rishi Sunak’s Tory government to be transferred to Rwanda as part of the controversial paid plan agreed with the African country and with the aim of trying to dissuade the landings of “illegal immigrants” across the Channel in the name of the electoral promise (which remained so far largely on paper) of a post-Brexit crackdown on immigration. Dozens of demonstrators today tried to block a bus in the London neighborhood of Peckham on board which the agents had loaded migrants identified for the lists of flights that the executive promises to want to leave for Kigali by the summer, after the approval of a controversial and draconian law implementing the Rwanda plan which aims to circumvent the rejection imposed on a first version of the initiative by the Supreme Court of the Kingdom. And to narrow the margins of legal appeal against transfers. Some activists were dragged away by force by police, as shown by the media. In the end the bus, the second since yesterday, left and the migrants involved were transferred to the accommodation ship Bibby Stockholm, a monitored collection center moored in Dorset, where they will await confirmation of departure for Rwanda. However, NGOs such as Detainee Support have made it known that the protest mobilization continues. “We will not let small groups of students incited on social media stop us from doing the right thing for the British people,” Home Secretary James Cleverly replied on X. While just today the latest official data confirmed an acceleration of the illegal flow across the Channel, with 711 arrivals recorded on board at least 11 “small boats” of smugglers yesterday: a daily record since the beginning of a year which has seen so far over 8000 landings, almost all departing from France. (HANDLE).