On Tuesday, five migrant people, including a seven-year-old girl, They’re dead while they were trying to cross the English Channel (the arm of the sea that separates the United Kingdom from continental Europe) near Wimereux, a municipality which is part of the department of Pas-de-Calais, in France. The press office of the prefect of Pas de Calais said they had boarded a boat carrying more than 110 people at 5am.
On Monday the British government gave final approval to a law on the transfer of asylum seekers to Rwanda. The plan foresees that all people arriving “illegally” in the UK from January 2022 after passing through a “safe country” (an expression of international law and which each country can tend to interpret differently based on certain guidelines , with often controversial results) can be transferred to Rwanda, together with their asylum requests: around 52 thousand people are included in this group, the majority of whom arrived in the United Kingdom after making dangerous crossings of the English Channel ( and therefore starting from France, which falls within the definition of a safe country).
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