Britain's controversial Rwanda policy could work, according to several Iraqi people smugglers who spoke exclusively to Sky News
A second smuggler, also based in northern Iraq, told us the Rwanda policy had already had some limited effect.
He said:"Our young people have ambitions, but they have no money and their families can barely feed them. They want to have a life, a house, get married."But because of the Rwanda policy the number of people leaving [to the UK] has dropped."the Rwanda plan will work, and the chair of the committee Yvette Cooper described it as a waste of taxpayers' money.
That view, however, has now been contradicted by the very smugglers arranging the dangerous journeys to Europe, and backed up by some of the people we met who still hope to make the journey. And one smuggler revealed a new, undiscovered route into Europe has been opened, to evade police and border officials - with hundreds already having used it.
We spent a number of weeks in northern Iraq and saw no let-up in the number of Kurds wanting to travel to Europe - not all to the UK it should be said. Even if the British government starts deporting migrants to Rwanda in large numbers, it won't stop people trying to leave here.
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