Downing Street says it has identified the first cohort of people to send to the African nation - but legal challenges lie ahead.
The first deportation flight to Rwanda has been booked, Number 10 has said, on the same day that Rishi Sunak's controversial bill became law. The Safety of Rwanda Bill, which declares the African a safe country to deport asylum seekers to, received royal assent today, meaning it has become an act of parliament and has become law.
For weeks, peers had been pushing back on the scheme and trying to get ministers to make changes to the controversial legislation, but later backed down from its opposition and let the bill pass, as is convention. Holding a press conference before the bill was passed, Mr Sunak said there were now 2,200 detention spaces and that 200 dedicated caseworkers had been trained to process claims quickly.
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