Legal battles leave Rwanda deportees in single digits
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Fewer than ten migrants are due to be on tomorrow’s inaugural flight to Rwanda after dozens of individuals lodged last-minute legal challenges.
About 130 migrants had been handed “removal directions”, meaning they were deemed to have arrived in the UK illegally and were due to be put on a one-way flight to the African country.
The flight risks being called off altogether if the remaining migrants lodge legal appeals against deportation.
Only ten still had documents yesterday morning saying they would be sent to Rwanda. Fifteen had had their removal directions cancelled over the previous 24 hours, according to Care4Calais, a charity that helps refugees. But the figure fell during the day, with a Home Office source saying: “We’re down to single digits now.”
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