First asylum-seeker is deported to Rwanda under migrant crackdown
The first asylum seeker has been deported to Rwanda under Rishi Sunak’s migrant crackdown.
The migrant, whose name is unknown, was flown out of the UK yesterday evening and arrived in Kigali.
He was put on a commercial flight and given around £3,000 from the British taxpayer to help relocate under the terms of a deal with Rwanda.
It marks the first time the government has relocated a failed asylum seeker to a third world country.
The man’s attempt to stay in Britain was rejected at the end of 2023, before he accepted the offer to start a new life in the central African nation.
The first asylum seeker has been deported to Rwanda under Rishi Sunak ‘s migrant crackdown
The Hope Hostel in Rwanda (pictured) is one of the locations migrants will be sent to
Rishi Sunak wants to relocate thousands of failed asylum seeker to the third world country
A source told The Sun: ‘This proves its possible and legal for Britain to remove successfully and smoothly.’
In March, The Home Office confirmed the voluntary relocation plan for those found in Britain without the right to be here.
In 2023, 19,000 failed asylum seekers were voluntarily taken out of the UK, after being told they would not get the rights of legal migrants.
There are still tens of thousands of migrants still in the system who cannot be sent back to their home countries.
Ministers said it is cheaper to send migrants to Rwanda than to support them in Britain, even after giving them money and flights.
Meanwhile, migrants living in Dublin’s tent city today thanked Mr Sunak for refusing to allow them back to Britain – because they ‘don’t want to go to Rwanda’.
Around 1,700 asylum seekers are living in tents in the Irish capital after crossing the border over fears that they would be sent to Rwanda if they stayed in Northern Ireland.
Mr Sunak yesterday declared he is ‘not interested’ in taking back migrants from Ireland – when the EU was refusing to take back Channel migrants who came from France.
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