Britain’s Parliament has passed contentious legislation aimed at deterring asylum seekers from heading to the UK. People arriving via small boats or any other “irregular means” will be deported to Rwanda where their asylum cases will be heard. Joelle Grogan, of the think tank UK in a Changing Europe, describes the plan and its likely consequences to The World’s host Carolyn Beeler.
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