UK to deport migrants to Rwanda based on group agreed by Kigali, document shows
People, believed to be migrants, disembark from a British Border Force vessel as they arrive at Port of Dover, Dover, Britain on April 23, 2024. PHOTO | REUTERS
The first asylum seekers to be deported from Britain to Rwanda will come from a group of 5,700 people that Kigali has agreed in principle to take, according to a British government document published on Monday.
Under a scheme that has divided political opinion in Britain, anyone who has arrived illegally after January 1, 2022 is eligible to be deported to Rwanda. More than 50,000 people have arrived since that date, official figures show.
