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Evil Exists

Robert Jenrick, the UK's Immigration Minister, resigned because a bill to send migrants to Rwanda doesn't breach enough human rights legislation.  These people are evil. It is surreal watching BBC News at the best of times, but the past few months have been borderline incomprehensible. The logic of the Rwanda policy is so flagrantly bizarre that every interview seems like a scene from a satirical comedy, written by people so insecure about their ability to send a clear message that they make their characters regularly verbally signpost how evil they are.  The base logic is as follows: "small boats" are causing a national emergency. In order to stop these small boats, we need to deport random asylum seekers to Rwanda, which is the only possible country we can send them to, and the only possible way of stopping the existential threat of dinghies in the Channel. The European Convention on Human Rights, the Human Rights Act, the Refugee Convention, and all other internati