The World’s Broken Promise of Asylum
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Britain’s new plan to send thousands of asylum seekers to Rwanda exposes the fragile nature of the global refugee compact, which has always fallen prey to domestic politics.

Nothing new

To be fair this is nothing new. Even during the 1930s/40s most governments were “not welcoming” of jewish refugees to say the least.

In the past decade in France the government has been condemned by some higher instances for deporting european citizens to other EU countries, as well as for deporting people before they could apply for asylum at the italian border.

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