Kevin Schofield is Politics Editor of HuffPost UK.
Ministers have been condemned after an asylum seeker was paid £3,000 to become the first migrant flown from the UK tothat the man was offered the chance to start a new life in Africa after his attempt to settle in the UK was rejected.source told the paper: “This proves it’s possible and legal for Britain to remove failed asylum seekers to Rwanda successfully and smoothly.
“Paying someone to go to Rwanda highlights just how much of a gimmick and farce their plan is. The truth is from day one the Government have cost the taxpayer eyewatering amounts of money and have failed to fix the issue.”says deportation flights to Rwanda will finally get off the ground in July and will act as a deterrent to stop migrants crossing the Channel in small boats.However, it is understood that the asylum seeker paid to move to Rwanda did not arrive in the UK by that method.
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