UK To Deport Nearly 6,000 Migrants To Rwanda This Year

The UK expects to deport nearly 6,000 migrants to Rwanda this year, a senior minister said Tuesday, after the government published new details on the controversial scheme.The figures come days after the plan aimed at deterring migrant arrivals on small boats from northern Europe became law following months of parliamentary wrangling.

“The expectation is that we remove that group of people… by the end of the year,” she told Sky News television.Migrants who arrived in the UK between January 2022 and June last year are liable to have their asylum claims deemed inadmissible and be removed to Rwanda, the interior ministry said. Under the scheme — set to cost UK taxpayers hundreds of millions of pounds — their asylum claims will be examined by Kigali.Rwanda, home to 13 million people in Africa’s Great Lakes region, lays claim to being one of the most stable countries on the continent and has drawn praise for its modern infrastructure.But rights groups accuse veteran President Paul Kagame of ruling in a climate of fear, stifling dissent and free speech.

It followed a UK Supreme Court ruling last year that said sending migrants on a one-way ticket there was illegal.

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