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Rwanda: UK Sends First Voluntary Asylum Seeker to Rwanda

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the first asylum seeker has been deported to Rwanda under Rishi Sunak's migrant crackdown.

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 .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 Africa n nation.

In 2023, 19,000 failed asylum seekers were voluntarily taken out of the UK, after being told they would never be granted the rights of legal migrants. An updated document assessing the impact of the partnership with the east African country states that Rwanda has agreed to accept 5,700 people.

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