Why do Asylum Seekers cross the channel on small boats

I see that Germany is now looking to send its asylum seekers to Rwanda. Couldn’t make it up.

ronib please read a reliable source. This is a proposal put forward by the migration commissioner, not a government plan.
www.reuters.com/world/germanys-migration-commissioner-proposes-rwanda-migrant-deportation-plan-2024-09-05/

Casdon I have had confirmation that this is a possibility from a friend living in Germany.

FDP Liberal did very badly in local elections and wants to win some votes back according to my source Casdon

It’s anecdotal ronib. Until something becomes policy, that’s all it is.

ronib

I see that Germany is now looking to send its asylum seekers to Rwanda. Couldn’t make it up.

I suspect that it has everything to do with the latest election and the AfD, and nothing to do with government policy.

ronib

I see that Germany is now looking to send its asylum seekers to Rwanda. Couldn’t make it up.

Harley news 🤷‍♀️
It was reported in November 2023

www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-67343002

That's going to be interesting if Germany actually do it?

petra it seems to be gaining some momentum in Germany and that is news.

Excellent piece detailing the reasons why asylum seekers come. Most come from countries where the western governments have sown deep divisions. We go there tell ahmed’s tribe Abdullah and his lot are evil then to ahmed the same about abdullah’s tribe. When the west fails politically or militarily….oh shit we better leave…we’re chased by men in flip flops. Then the BBc and sky bring tear jerking news about the oppression of women and how they need sanctuary and yet we haven’t brought any Gazan women to the uk…..who are being killed in their thousands.

ronib

petra it seems to be gaining some momentum in Germany and that is news.

Not if you read European newspapers.

petra try speaking to the people who live in Germany. Newspapers??

All the people who live in Germany ronib. I’m not sure Petra can manage that

Iam64 point taken. However it is an interesting development imo.

This was a suggestion by the immigration minister in response to Putin encouraging migrants to access Germany via Russia. If they did want to do this they would face the same challenges as the UK did ie they would have to change their own laws regarding the treatment of asylum seekers and would probably not get sufficient support to pass the changes in law required.