BREAKING: First deportation flight to Rwanda to go ahead after legal challenge fails.
Asylum seekers who arrive on small boats are among those affected by the Home Office’s new partnership with Rwanda
This was under the Home Office’s new partnership with Rwanda, which will see people who arrive in Britain ‘illegally’ being resettled in the East African country. Up to 130 people had been notified they could be removed, and 31 were due on the first flight on Tuesday, the court heard.Lawyers for almost 100 migrants had submitted legal challenges asking to stay in the UK with the remaining anticipated to follow suit.
During the proceedings it emerged the Home Office had already scrapped plans to remove three people set to be on the first flight, with a further two expected. Mr Husain also told the court that assertions by the Home Office that UN refugee agency the UNHCR had given the plans the ‘green light’ was a ‘false claim’.
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