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A European election candidate is proposing Ireland's migration policy move towards something similar to the UK's Rwanda Plan. The UK government's plans to send asylum seekers to Rwanda in order to process their claims there have passed by Parliament in the last month. The Supreme Court in Britain ruled last year that the policy is unlawful as there's an "evidence based finding of fact that Rwanda is not a safe country" and a "high risk Rwanda sending asylum seekers to place where there is a risk they would be subjected to persecution and ill-treatment". Barrister and Independent candidate Una McGurk believes however that a similar policy in Ireland would ease pressure on our international protection system.