I found out about the Home Office’s Rwanda plan just before I crossed the English Channel by boat
The crew of the lifeboat told us: ‘Don’t worry, you’re safe now’ (Picture: Kaveh Khezri/Getty)
The night before I made the crossing, I was so nervous that – for the first time in my life – I smoked a cigarette.
It was April 2022 and the smugglers had said the sea was going to be calm so I was googling the weather. That’s when I noticed headlines about the UK Government’s Rwanda plan to establish offshore processing for asylum seekers.
My English was not good enough to understand the whole deal...
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