Visit comes a day after British parliament passed controversial Safety of Rwanda Bill which will see some illegal migrants in the UK deported to the central African country, legislation that has been slammed by lawyers and international human rights groups.
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00:00 Britain's Home Secretary James Cleverley has said the government is doing all it can to
00:06 stop dangerous crossings by migrants in the English Channel.
00:11 Cleverley is in Rome to discuss ways to jointly stem illegal migration from North Africa.
00:18 His visit comes a day after the British Parliament passed the controversial Rwanda Bill, which
00:24 will see some illegal migrants sent to the African country, legislation that's been slammed
00:29 by lawyers and human rights groups.
00:32 "This new legislation seriously hinders the rule of law in the UK and it sets a perilous
00:38 precedent globally. It is critical to the protection of the human rights and dignity
00:43 of refugees and migrants seeking protection that all removals from the UK are carried
00:48 out after assessing their specific individual circumstances in strict compliance with international
00:54 human rights and refugee law."
00:57 The bill has also been met with dismay by some Rwandans living in the capital Kigali,
01:03 some of whom were themselves refugees.
01:05 "Of course it is also strange because somebody who is in the UK should not be coming to a
01:10 country like Rwanda which is poorer. So we would expect that the UK would have more resources
01:17 to accommodate more refugees."
01:20 Cleverley is due to meet his Italian counterpart Matteo Piantidossi in Lampedusa on Wednesday
01:26 to accelerate joint work on cracking down on irregular migration.
01:31 It comes after Italy announced last year it would open third-country migrant processing
01:36 centres in Albania, which was criticised as falling outside EU law.
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