Alexander Downer has been appointed to a UK government panel to oversee its plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda, prompting criticism from refugee and asylum seeker advocates.
The new committee will provide “independent” oversight of the five-year deal between the UK and Rwanda under which asylum seekers who arrive in the UK would be sent to Rwanda on a one-way ticket – a plan critics have condemned as cruel and unworkable. The appointment was made by Priti Patel in one of her final acts as home secretary.
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