Ministers will face a fierce battle in parliament over plans to force some asylum seekers to be relocated to Rwanda, a Labour peer and former child refugee has vowed.

Alf Dubs, who was brought to Britain from Czechoslovakia on one of the Kindertransport trains in 1939, told the Guardian that the government was trying to “ride roughshod” over international agreements designed to help those seeking sanctuary.
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“I think it’s a way of getting rid of people the government doesn’t want, dumping them in a distant African country, and they’ll have no chance of getting out of there again,” he said.

“I think it’s a breach of the 1951 Geneva conventions on refugees. You can’t just shunt them around like unwanted people.”
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Asked if the resettlement scheme was ever likely to get off the ground, given the threat of judicial reviews and other court action, Dubs said: “I think it’s unlikely. As soon as they try and remove one person, I’m sure there’ll be a legal challenge, and I’m not sure the government will win it.”

But the @GOP is cheering the arrest of a 26 yo who took Plan B as her healthcare choice&now charged w/ murder &handed a 1/2mill bond as well as the vigilante healthcare provider who share personal patient info to collect $10K bounty.
Welcome to The Handmaid's Tale.
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So a high level & close GOP staffer to @GOPChairwoman was just arrested for pedophilia and his messages show he promoted the rape of babies. Yet, the @GOPChairwoman and @GOP won’t even address it, condemn it, say it’s bad or anything. That’s the GOP. PedoCons.

Some interesting interviews from the rally today. Here’s Julie from Ohio. She thinks Space Force is going to help trump overturn the 2020 election.

When I talk about the cult of Trump, I’m talking about a destructive authoritarian cult. This is defined by four overlapping components that I referred to as the BITE model of authoritarian control. The b of BITE stands for behavior control. Then the i is information control. Thought control is the t, and e is emotional control. My definition of an authoritarian cult is these four components are used to change the person into a mirror or a clone of the cult, that is dependent and obedient. As a mental health professional, we think of that as a dissociative disorder. Where the person’s real self is still there, it’s just suppressed. This new identity has taken over, and thought-stopping mechanisms and phobias are installed in the cult identity to keep it in control.