Not the same thing at all.

The Rwanda scheme was for processing and no matter what the outcome, they would stay there. Rwanda also has a recent history of genocide, shooting refugees and is currently at war. Other than that… This from the BBC. ‘ The proposals would apply only to asylum seekers whose claims had been rejected and who had no further routes of appeal in the UK.
It differs from the previous Conservative government's Rwanda scheme, which was scrapped by Sir Keir and involved sending migrants to have their asylum claims processed in the African country.’

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