Dr Waheed Arian fled Afghanistan at the age of 15 and now works for the NHS in Shropshire.
But after settling in and studying hard, he eventually went to the University of Cambridge and qualified as a doctor in 2010."None of that would exist if the current policy of sending asylum seekers to Rwanda was in place at that time," he said.
He said many asylum seekers, like himself, arrived with mental health problems and sending them to Rwanda risked "re-traumatising them". Concerns have been raised about the human rights record of Rwanda, but Mr Pursglove said Rwanda was a progressive country which wanted to provide sanctuary, and that it had made "huge strides forward" in the last three decades.
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