Provisional total reaches 25,146, government figures show, four months after Priti Patel’s Rwanda policy unveiled
Photograph: Gareth Fuller/PAPhotograph: Gareth Fuller/PAMore than 25,000 migrants and refugees have crossed the Channel to the UK so far this year, government figures show.
, unveiled plans to send refugees to Rwanda to try to deter people from crossing the Channel. Since then, 19,878 people have arrived in the UK after making the journey.under which the east African nation would receive refugees deemed by the UK to have arrived illegally and therefore inadmissible under new immigration rules.
Several asylum seekers, the Public and Commercial Services union and charities Care4Calais, Detention Action and Asylum Aid are challenging the legality of the Home Office policy, with the next court hearings due in September and October.
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