In the morning, emergency services were told “a boat full of migrants is off the coast of Dieppe”. A Coast Guard inshore boat “rescued the boat in distress at midday”.
The Maritime Province said the crew had rescued “66 shipwrecked personnel, including women and children”.
The evacuees were then “taken to the port of Dieppe, where they were assisted by land rescue services and border police”, and housed in a gymnasium.
“Government services analyze the administrative situation of migrants on a case-by-case basis. Three people have already been detained by the national police and detained on suspicion of being human traffickers,” the city hall said in a press release.
Meanwhile, in the United Kingdom, the British government announced today that the first migrants to be deported to Rwanda had been arrested and detained, with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak hailing the fact as a new step in the use of a symbol. A measure of its migration policy.
The Conservative government has promised to end these immigration shortcuts. Since the beginning of the year, more than 7,500 people have arrived, a historic record for the first four months of the year.
On Monday, the United Kingdom deported the first asylum seeker to Rwanda under its voluntary program for migrants denied asylum, British media reported.
Organizations such as Doctors Without Borders rejected a bill passed in the UK House of Commons to relocate asylum seekers to Rwanda on “medical, ethical and humanitarian grounds”.
For Natalie Roberts, executive director of MSF in the United Kingdom, this is “another dark chapter in the brutal British approach to migration”, which is “based on policies of deterrence, externalisation and punishment of people seeking protection”.
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