Scottish Greens: Home Office proposal "a disgraceful new low"
Home Office proposals to "process" migrants in Rwanda would be "a disgraceful new low" according to the Scottish Greens, who have branded it a "repressive and authoritarian proposal" and "part of the same racist worldview and policies that have led to the Windrush scandal and deportation vans doing dawn raids in our communities."
The Scottish Greens human rights spokesperson, Maggie Chapman MSP, said: "Even by the terrible standards of the institutionally racist Home Office, this would be a disgraceful new low. It is a repressive and authoritarian proposal that rejects the fundamental principle and right of asylum."
"Time and again, Downing Street has fanned the flames of racism and shown a total disregard for the rights and lives of people fleeing conflict zones and awful circumstances. It has dehumanised and criminalised them, and now it wants to offshore its responsibilities by sending them thousands of miles away to be 'processed' by a regime with an appalling human rights record."
"This is part of the same racist worldview and policies that have led to the Windrush scandal and deportation vans doing dawn raids in our communities. It comes from a government that is hellbent on ripping up the Refugee Convention."
"Future generations will look at the way successive UK governments have treated human beings with horror and disgust. This dreadful proposal must be stopped. It is time to end the hostile environment for good."