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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: 5 Migrants Die Crossing the English Channel, Hours After U.K. Passes Controversial Deportation Bill [Watch (HLS stream): 5 Migrants Die Crossing the English Channel, Hours After U.K. Passes Controversial Deportation Bill](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/hxCOttcx.m3u8) (1:50)  _Published 2024-04-23. The CEO of Amnesty International U.K. condemned the U.K. for passing a bill that would allow the government to deport some migrants who enter the country illegally to Rwanda. The news came hours before five migrants, including a child, died while attempting to cross the English channel, on Tuesday._ --- Apr 23, 2024 6:20 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [U.K. Supreme Court Rules Plan to Send Migrants to Rwanda Is Unlawful](/video/Ez3YqiFN/) ### U.K. Supreme Court Rules Plan to Send Migrants to Rwanda Is Unlawful [Grandmother Deported From The U.K.](/video/o6clJiza/) ### Grandmother Deported From The U.K. [Know Right Now: Migrants in Calais Turn to Desperate Measures to Reach The U.K.](/video/ow2qQBGE/) ### Know Right Now: Migrants in Calais Turn to Desperate Measures to Reach The U.K. --- ## Transcript I think today's news post about the passage of the Roar. I'm the bill overnight, but also by further deaths in the channel to legislation is not just wrong cause of the way in which a pink flavored League knows the right after counseling session low of refugees and asylum-seekers calming precedent for the UK government is saying it can legislate the first course not to properly assess abilities in making a judgment that something as indications of any button on Justin Solomon Refugee policy on a day when we seen those that I'm very worried not just about the legislation and its impact on Refugee and Asylum Seekers, but I'm more broadly a leadership around the world and for international human rights and international Around The World is Not Enough. National overnight what it's doing is actually changing the nature of what their own course can have independence of evidence, which is one of the fundamental principles on the underlined price of milk in support of international or actions, which are increasingly recklessly damaging that inside Florida and putting a grave read something but the UK played a big part in building in the ashes if it's time for those of us who care about international law and you care about me co-founders to stand up and cleaning state or government enough is enough and that's pretty much what I'm trying to say here in the UK. ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"5 Migrants Die Crossing the English Channel, Hours After U.K. Passes Controversial Deportation Bill","description":"The CEO of Amnesty International U.K. condemned the U.K. for passing a bill that would allow the government to deport some migrants who enter the country illegally to Rwanda. 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