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The passage of British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak\u2019s contentious bill to deport refugees to Rwanda may be delayed until at least next month after the upper house of parliament defeated the government and reinstated a demand for greater protections.<\/strong><\/p>\n
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The government wants to relocate thousands of asylum seekers who arrive in\u00a0Britain\u00a0on small, inflatable boats each year to live in Rwanda, but legal challenges have so far prevented anyone being sent to the East African country yet.The legislation is central to Sunak\u2019s pledge to stop the arrival of asylum seekers and he hopes the deportation flights will reverse the fortunes of his Conservative Party, which is heavily trailing in the polls with the next election looming.<\/strong>Unelected members of the House of Lords, largely made up of former politicians and government officials, voted on Wednesday for a second time to amend the legislation to put more safeguards in place to protect the rights of asylum seekers.The defeat for the government means the bill will be sent back to the House of Commons in a process known as \u201cparliamentary ping-pong\u201d where the two chambers try to find common ground.The resulting back-and-forth means the bill is unlikely to become law until after parliament returns from its Easter break \u2013 in the middle of next month at the earliest.<\/strong>This is likely to push back when the first deportation flights take off because, one government official said, it will probably take at least a month to organise them from the moment when the legislation passed.The government suffered a setback to its plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda last year when the UK\u2019s Supreme Court ruled the policy was unlawful because there was risk that people sent there could be sent back to their country of origin and their safety jeopardised.To overcome objections by the court, Sunak\u2019s government is passing the bill that declares Rwanda a safe country for asylum seekers and disapplies parts of human rights law in an attempt to block further legal challenges.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The passage of British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak\u2019s bill to deport refugees to Rwanda may be delayed until at least next month after the upper house of parliament demanded greater protections. The government aims to relocate thousands of asylum seekers who arrive in Britain on small boats each year to Rwanda, but legal challenges have prevented any deportations so far. The legislation is key to Sunak\u2019s pledge to stop the arrival of asylum seekers, aiming to improve his Conservative Party’s standing in polls. The House of Lords voted to amend the legislation for more safeguards for asylum seekers, causing a delay in the bill becoming law until after parliament’s Easter break. The UK\u2019s Supreme Court previously ruled the deportation policy unlawful due to risks to the deportees’ safety. 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