After a lengthy back and forth between the United Kingdom's House of Commons and House of Lords, the government's Rwanda Bill is set to receive Royal Assent and become law, BBC reported.
The House of Lords gave way for the bill to pass, deciding not to table any further amendments to the proposed bill, as they were consistently rejected by the Members of Parliament (MPs). "The time has come to accept the primacy of the elected house and withdraw from the fray," Lord David Anderson of Ipswich stated, admitting defeat.
The bill compels judges to regard Rwanda as safe, while also giving ministers the power to ignore emergency injunctions. British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak previously announced that the country will start deporting illegal asylum seekers to Rwanda in 10 to 12 weeks. At the time, the bill was blocked as the House of Lords introduced amendments.
