‘Inhumane & impractical’: UK interior minister in hot water over idea to ship asylum seekers 6,400km to remote Atlantic island

The UK Home Secretary Priti Patel

The UK Home Secretary Priti Patel has found herself at the center of a twitterstorm, after she reportedly mulled an idea of sending refugees to a small island in the South Atlantic while their applications are being processed.

The reason for a massive public outcry against the British interior minister was a series of reports in the British media saying that Patel ordered her ministry to explore the “possibility” of constructing an asylum processing center on Ascension Island as part of a tougher approach to illegal immigration. The Home Office also reportedly consulted the Foreign & Commonwealth Office over the idea.

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