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The UK government unveiled a “cruel” new policy on Thursday to send asylum seekers thousands of miles to Rwanda for offshore processing. Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the immigration shake-up – for which plans have not been finalised yet – was driven by “humanitarian concerns” and made possible by Brexit in a speech in the coastal county Kent. UK Home Secretary Priti Patel was in Rwanda this week securing a “migration and economic development partnership”. Refugee campaigners slammed the policy change as “cruel and nasty”, expressing concerns over the threat to human rights as well as the …