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GMB's Adil Ray gets fired up in heat-fuelled debate over plans for refugees
Good Morning Britain host Adil Ray became raged during a heat-fuelled discussion regarding the UK governments plans to send asylum seekers to Rwanda on Thursday's episode (April 14).The 47-year-old TV personality was joined on the show by co-star Charlotte Hawkin's when he clashed with Broadcaster and guest of the show Cindy Yu over the situation.The two host's later invited Sonia Sodja to join the conversation and things really did turn tense at one point.Adil's cage seemed to become more rattled as the debate went on, with the host criticising Cindy's terminologies, adding that the "illegal refugees" narrative should be changed to "essentially desperate refugees".Cindy argued that last year it had been reported that over half of those deemed "illegal" were in fact legitimate asylum seekers.She said: "Yes, some of them will be economic migrants, but it was interesting because it was reported that over half of the claims last year were approved, over half of them are legitimate asylum seekers, so why are we not finding them safer methods?"Cindy commented: "I appreciate that channel crossing is not good, people smugglers, we shouldn't be offering people those options, but I'm not really sure Rwanda is the way forward."The broadcaster turned her attention to cost, explaining that the "government were not allowing them to contribute back" into the system.Bringing culture into the debate, Cindy urged: "There is a reason we treat Afghan refugees differently to Ukrainian refugees"."As someone who's come from China, culture does matter. "The similarity of culture that the UK has as a European country to Ukraine will matter in how we treat them," she hit back.
