Some activists banged on the fence outside the immigration center and those inside the building seemed to be chanting back.
In unison with the protesters, those inside appeared to chant: “No Rwanda.”
The plans would see some people who had entered the UK illegally flying to Rwanda to seek asylum there.
The Supreme Court ruling means the first flight to the East African nation could proceed on Tuesday but campaigners will oppose this in the Court of Appeal on Monday.
At the protest, teacher Jane Fisher, of Croydon, south London, a volunteer with Care for Calais, which provides emergency aid to refugees, said: “There was a boy named Sami and he was from Afghanistan, his parents and sister. exploded in a car bomb and he was 17 years old and he passed.
“He was really scared because he was about to be sent to Rwanda.
“He kept asking about it because the evaders didn’t know what was going on.
“I meet some wonderful people and they all have terrible stories.”
Protesters socialize with asylum seekers inside the perimeter fence of the Brook House Immigration Removal Center next to Gatwick Airport, near London on Sunday. Photo: AFP
Abbas Artan, 24, a Somali asylum seeker who crossed from Calais to the UK in a small boat in October, said he had lived in limbo at the Radisson Red hotel near Gatwick Airport for past 8 months.
Regarding Rwanda’s policy, he said: “The government has to stop this because the people suffer a lot.
“Someone came here to change their lives, to bring them back to Rwanda when there was nothing left… some of them said ‘I would kill myself if I was sent there’.”
He said he fled Somalia because the jihadist group al-Shabab tried to recruit him as a soldier and broke his teeth with a gun when he refused.
His journey to the UK has seen him cross Somalia to Ethiopia, then Sudan, Libya, Italy, Sweden, Germany and France, before crossing the English Channel.
Christian Hogsberg, 42, a history lecturer at the University of Brighton, said he joined the protest against the government’s Rwanda policy to “show solidarity with refugees who are at risk deported to the Rwandan dictatorship at the hands of the Tory Government. is playing the race card in the most shameful manner. ”
He accused ministers of trying to get Britons to “blame those among some of the poorest and most helpless people in the world rather than those who are actually responsible for our country’s cost of living crisis.” I”.
As many as 130 people were told they could be deported, and on Friday the High Court in London heard that 31 people were expected to be on the maiden flight, and the Home Office boarded plans that there will be more planes by the end of the year.
The first complaint against the policy has been brought by lawyers on behalf of some asylum seekers along with the Commercial and Public Services (PCS) coalition, as well as the Care4Calais and Detention Action groups, which are challenging formalize this policy on behalf of those affected.
The Prince of Wales is said to be “more frustrated” by Rwanda’s policy, reportedly privately calling it “appalling”, according to reports in Time and Daily mail Newspaper.
Britain’s Prince Charles has criticized the British government’s plan to start deporting asylum seekers to Rwanda. Photo: AP
On Sunday, Rwanda’s top negotiator for a deportation agreement with the UK said the country was ready to take in people in the “tens of thousands” but would start slowly.
Doris Uwicyeza, principal technical adviser to the Rwanda Ministry of Justice, also defended Rwanda’s human rights record and said that homosexuality is not illegal.
She told Tom Swarbrick on LBC: “In fact, based on our history, we understand how important it is to protect anyone from hate speech and discrimination, which is not allowed. Accepted in our society, freedom from discrimination due to one’s sexual orientation is guaranteed in the constitution and the rule of law is there to enforce that”.
