UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson says he's confident of the legality of his government's plan to send some asylum seekers to Rwanda, despite the first flight being blocked at the last minute by the European Court of Human Rights.
The British government has vowed to organise more flights to deport asylum seekers from around the world to Rwanda, after a last-minute court judgment grounded the first plane due to take off under the contentious policy.
The UK government, which promised to tighten borders after Brexit, is under pressure to deal with record numbers of migrants crossing the Channel in small boats from northern France. Some 130 asylum seekers were originally scheduled to be on Tuesday's flight but the numbers were whittled down to zero after a series of legal challenges on human rights grounds.The government in London is considering rewriting the UK Human Rights Act, which is based on the European Convention of Human Rights, to make it easier for it to deport migrants.
Mr Johnson, returning on Saturday from a surprise visit to Kyiv on Friday, told reporters the government would forge ahead with the controversial deportation plan. Ms Patel also said the government would not be deterred, and her Home Office department has embarked on a 12-month pilot project to electronically tag some migrants.
Most were fleeing violence and persecution and may have been victims of torture and human trafficking, he told Times Radio.
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