THE U.K. STARTED ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION

Under UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s ‘Stop the Boats’ initiative, the United Kingdom will begin deporting asylum seekers to Rwanda within several weeks, according to reports. But does the UK have any right to worry about so-called ‘illegal immigration’?

In a 6 May livestream with @authentic_african, African Stream journalist Inem Richardson called out Britain’s colonial history as the root of the modern ‘migration crisis.’ The pair explored reasons why Rwanda might have agreed to such a collaboration with the UK and Rwanda’s history in similar deals.

Watch the whole livestream, ‘UK Begins to Deport African Asylum Seekers to Rwanda,’ on our YouTube channel under the ‘Live’ tab.