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UK's House of Lords Delay Passing of Rwanda Deportation Bill to Next Week - Reports

© AFP 2023 / PHILIPPE HUGUEN A migrant holds a placard reading 'I am Ahmed. Go to UK' as part of a rally of around 3000 migrants and members of associations aiding migrants including British associations, in the northern French port city of Calais (File)
A migrant holds a placard reading 'I am Ahmed. Go to UK' as part of a rally of around 3000 migrants and members of associations aiding migrants including British associations, in the northern French port city of Calais (File) - Sputnik International, 1920, 18.04.2024
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The House of Lords of the United Kingdom has postponed the passing of the Rwanda Deportation Bill until Monday, UK broadcaster has reported.
The report said on Wednesday that parliament members overturned Tuesday's attempts by the UK upper house to dilute the plan, and Lords have now put forward even more changes to the proposed bill, which are now expected to be considered by the House of Commons on Monday.
Rwanda and the United Kingdom signed a migration agreement in 2022, under which people identified by the UK government as undocumented migrants or asylum seekers will be deported to Rwanda for processing, asylum and resettlement. The scheme has drawn criticism from human rights organizations, as well as numerous politicians and officials within the UK.
People thought to be migrants who undertook the crossing from France in small boats and were picked up in the Channel, wait to be disembarked from a British border force vessel, in Dover, south east England - Sputnik International, 1920, 04.04.2024
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