Priti Patel’s plans to send asylum seekers to Africa for processing has sparked a furious reaction on social media, with one person calling it a “disgusting” move. According to reports in The Times today the home secretary will introduce laws next week to enable the government to hold migrants in offshore hubs. It needs to be noted that with her plan to create so-called 'offshore processing centers' for asylum seekers, the UK's Home Secretary Priti Patel is politically congruent with Germany's far-right AfD party. pic.twitter.com/2UKLTJecVf — Wolfgang Blau (@wblau) June 27, 2021Here’s the pick of the reaction from elsewhere:If @pritipatel wants to send asylum seekers to Rwanda she will have a fight on her hands. This doesn't happen.https://t.co/VVGbYZ684v — Femi (@Femi_Sorry) June 28, 2021The Tory Government created an unaccountable, violent system to oppress, terrorise & imprison undocumented people & asylum seekers.

Source: The North Africa Journal June 28, 2021 06:56 UTC