Guli Francis-Dehqani, bishop of Chelmsford and former asylum seeker, wrote to the Home Secretary on Monday to express her full support for the Archbishop of Canterbury, who described Rwanda’s proposal as disrespectful, and urged it to reconsider its position. of. It came after Mrs. Patel issued a sparsely covered attack on Rev. Justin Welby. In a joint article with Vincent Biruta, Rwanda’s foreign minister, published in the Times, the interior minister described the plan’s critics as saying they had failed to offer any alternative to the immigration crisis. He defended the controversial proposal as a “bold and innovative” way of combating the “deadly trade” of migrants crossing the Channel in small boats. The Right Rev. Francis-Dehqani, who was born in Iran, said her experience as an asylum seeker made her “extremely concerned” about the program and its implications. He said he was treating the most vulnerable in a “cruel and inhuman” way.
