Business Secretary Kemi Badenoch defends Rwanda scheme as the first asylum seeker is sent under a voluntary removals programme. She says the migrant’s choice to leave the UK voluntarily proves “the deterrent is working”.
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00:00 So we have seen the first person who is a failed asylum seeker going to Rwanda.
00:06 This is a voluntary, this is someone who's taken a voluntary route to go
00:09 there, which shows that people are willing to go there because it is a safe
00:13 country. This is one of the many arguments we have whether or not Rwanda
00:16 was a safe place, so that's something that we are seeing, but it is also
00:20 showing that the deterrent effect is working as we are seeing a lot of
00:24 reticence. You look at the comments from the Irish government about people, failed
00:28 asylum seekers going to Ireland because they are worried about being sent to
00:31 Rwanda. Yes I do and this is one of many ways that the Home Office is policing
00:36 our borders. This is not the only thing, there is a lot that's being done around
00:39 enforcement, there's a lot that's being done around checks. This is to create a
00:44 deterrent effect and to let people know that they should not be risking their
00:48 lives just because they think that they will end up in the UK, they may end up somewhere else.