Above international law? UK stands by Rwanda deportation scheme • FRANCE 24 English

What does today's Britain stand for? Do illegal migrants deserve to be deported thousands of kilometres away to a country they have never been to? An eleventh-hour ruling from the European Court of Human Rights is for now halting the maiden flight in a scheme to send them to Rwanda. Despite outcry that extends all the way up to Prince Charles and the Archbishop of Canterbury, the government vows to fight it and is even making veiled hints at reviewing its relationship with the ECHR.
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[eyeofthetiger]

It's a bit rich of the French to be concerned about this since they are the root cause of this illegal migration in the first place by failing to patrol its borders adequately whether through incompetence or design despite receiving millions of pounds from Britain to prevent this from happening!

[리주민]

Two things:

1) My understanding is that refugees must go to the first safe country, not pick and choose which country. Those that do pick their country would be considered migrants.

2) I see executive choice in which laws to carry out and how. How is this different with treaties? The executive is given a lot of leeway in their execution of laws. If signatories have issues with the execution and adherence of the treaty, then they can bring grievance, just as people can sue the govt for failing to adhere to a law passed by parliament. If this is the point of the ECHR, then fine. If in that case, the ECHR can suspend their membership or the UK can withdraw (which I believe requires a parliamentary vote).

[WOKETUBE-SUX]

France controlling its borders properly would have prevented this!!!

[adrianodimarafino]

I think Laura made a very important comment. My observation of Boris Johnson is he just keeps making drastic decisions to keep his political position and not thinking of Britain and its people in the long haul. A good reputation is important for Britain because of its history whether people agree or not, his actions will also affect whether the British Royal Family are around after the Queen or not, Leaving the ECHR, Ripping up the Good Friday Protocol, diverting migrants etc is not intelligent. I can’t take him seriously after he stood in front of the United Nations recently quoting miss piggy while actual global crises are occurring. He doesn’t conduct himself nor does he speak publicly with the education and composure we expect from Modern day England.

[GeorgeAAspros]

Solving the problem of unsafe trafficking across the Channel by trafficking people to Africa…. Unreal. If they wanted to go to Rwanda they surely would have done that without going through Europe.

[taniakeen]

Its alway easy to make decisions for another person when you have never walked a day in their shoes.

[samatha]

Send Boris, Putin and Trump to Rwanda. Actually, that's not fair on Rwanda, or the planet earth.

[hmm]

United Kingdom is a sovereign nation that don't have listen to international bureaucracy.

[jaketaylor]

Britian criticizing others on human rights means nothing when one court desicion makes them want to leave the EU Human Rights Pact.

[rravisankar]

No one has any right to intrude in to another country.

[liamp.]

As they should! This Rwanda thing is probably Boris biggest success and now i fully support this man!

[greeko]

I'm surprised by Tomlinson's heartless coldly calculating tone considering he is a very young person.

[CapAnson]

Rwanda or the North Sea. The choice is yours.

[andrewwhite]

It really does not matter anymore France has been badly wounded with regards to Brexit and acts like a spoilt partner who has been spurned so will take any opportunity to lob a spanner into the works.

[RonaldShea]

An immediate withdrawal from the ECHR is absolutely crucial to enable the UK to effectively address the grave and seemingly unending myriad of problems associated with illegal immigration.

[casualdrifterendgames]

Every country on this planet no matter there geography or religion needs and must take full responsibility for the welfare of all there citizens.. That includes looking after all there temporary living status...

[finleygunn]

The European chort of human rights should not be involved

[GrandExplorer]

Some countries other than the UK might get encouraged!

The living costs are half at least!!
A country further away from conflicts and wars.

[amritpalsingh]

Now countries in the EU must impose sanctions for breaking international rules based system

[cowabungahgeoff]

An interesting conversation. Glad that there is mild disagreement and that everyone in the conversation is respectfully concerned.