Balanced News: UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman in Rwanda for controversial migrant deal talks

Home Secretary Suella Braverman is in Rwanda for talks about the UK’s £140 million (€160 million) deal to send refugees to Rwanda. The government hopes that the decisive – and divisive – measure will stop tens of thousands of migrants reaching Britain in boats across the English Channel. Last week, Braverman said she could not make a definitive statement on whether the ‘Illegal Migration Bill’ was legal. The governments’ plan to detain and remove people who arrive ‘irregularly’ on small boats by crossing the Channel is likely to violate protections ensured by the treaty, such as limits on detention and nonrefoulement. Describing the current process as ‘deeply flawed’, she said the government had ‘initiated discussions’ with the ECHR, following its intervention last year to block plans to send some asylum-seekers to Rwanda.