{"id":26918,"date":"2023-12-06T12:09:53","date_gmt":"2023-12-06T12:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/belalcazar.org\/?p=26918"},"modified":"2023-12-06T12:09:53","modified_gmt":"2023-12-06T12:09:53","slug":"governments-rwanda-migrant-plan-doomed-to-fail-warns-lawyer-mr-loophole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/belalcazar.org\/politics\/governments-rwanda-migrant-plan-doomed-to-fail-warns-lawyer-mr-loophole\/","title":{"rendered":"Governments Rwanda migrant plan doomed to fail, warns lawyer Mr Loophole"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A celebrity lawyer dubbed Mr Loophole has said the government’s latest bid to get the flagship Rwanda immigration policy past the courts is doomed to fail.<\/p>\n

Solicitor Nick Freeman, who has been highly successful in helping high-profile clients in court, said the Prime Minister’s plans to have asylum seekers on planes to the African nation by early next year were not going to happen.<\/p>\n

New Home Secretary James Cleverly flew to Rwanda this week to sign a new treaty which he insisted addresses all of the reasons that caused the Supreme Court to deem the Government’s flagship asylum policy unlawful.<\/p>\n

But speaking to GB News Mr Freeman said Rwanda’s “appalling” Human Rights record was still something the courts could not ignore.<\/p>\n

He said: \u200c\u201cIt’s not going to work. The Supreme Court three weeks ago upheld the Court of Appeal’s ruling.<\/p>\n

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\u200c\u201cWhat the government is doing now is what they should have done before this case reached The Court of Appeal. They are closing the gate after the horse has bolted.<\/p>\n

\u200c\u201cThe measures they are putting in place are admirable; the whole purpose of sending asylum seekers to Rwanda is to act as a deterrent.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd I’m not suggesting that maybe two or three years down the road this may work but of course the Prime Minister is under enormous pressure. He wants the first flights to be in the air by, I think, March or April of next year. And that simply isn’t going to happen.”<\/p>\n

Mr Freeman added previous experiments with the Rwanda system by Israel had not worked but he said it could work in the future for the British.<\/p>\n

He continued: “So what the Supreme Court has said is that they are incentivised to make it work and with these proposals, if the government goes back in two, three years time, it may get there. But at the moment it\u2019s bound by the Supreme Court ruling.<\/p>\n

\u200c\u201cAnd the government can’t just waft that aside by putting different labels and plugging the gaps. It simply isn’t going to work.”<\/p>\n

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