EU considers offshoring plan for migrants

BRITAIN could set up Rwanda-style deportation schemes with other European countries under plans being considered by ministers.

Robert Jenrick, the immigration minister, has confirmed that the Government is in talks with other third countries which would, like Rwanda, take mi grants deported from the UK.

The negotiations are being conducted as other European countries are also now considering following the UK’S lead in “offshoring” asylum applications and processing.

Germany ’s newly appointed special commissioner for migration, Joachim Stamp, has revealed his government is considering options for transferring asylum procedures to Africa.

It would mean migrants rescued on the Mediterranean would be transferred to North Africa for their asylum claims to be processed there. Denmark has signed a declaration with Rwanda to transfer up to 1,000 asylum seekers there annually, emulating the UK’S approach which is currently being challenged in the Court of Appeal.

The toughening European approach to migration was underlined on Friday when R is hi Sun aka greed a £478 million, three-year deal with Emmanuel Macron that will include funding for a detention centre from which Channel migrants will be deported back to their home country or a safe third nation.

France is toughening its immigration policy with proposed new legislation that will double the time illegal migrants can be detained to 90 days.

Mr Jenrick declined to name countries Britain was talking to about Rwanda-style schemes, but said: “There are other countries who are interested in doing this both with us and I should say also with other European countries. Everyone sees that in a global migration crisis you have to take robust steps like this to secure your borders.”