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U.K. Supreme Court to weigh legality of plan to deport migrants to Rwanda [View all]
https://www.npr.org/2023/10/07/1203861899/britain-rwanda-migrants-deportation-supreme-courtU.K. Supreme Court to weigh legality of plan to deport migrants to Rwanda
October 7, 2023 5:02 AM ET
Lauren Frayer
DOVER, England, and LONDON — They were handcuffed, their phones confiscated, their legs shackled in the van on the way to a military airfield. They were terrified.
One wept. Another fainted, and a doctor had to be summoned. Two prayed aloud in unison.
It was June 2022, and with these seven migrant men — ranging in age from 26 to 54, from Iran, Iraq, Vietnam and Albania — the British government hoped to send a chilling message to anyone crossing the English Channel to enter the United Kingdom without a visa.
They would be deported — not back to the countries from which they'd escaped, but to Rwanda, in central Africa.
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October 7, 2023 5:02 AM ET
Lauren Frayer
DOVER, England, and LONDON — They were handcuffed, their phones confiscated, their legs shackled in the van on the way to a military airfield. They were terrified.
One wept. Another fainted, and a doctor had to be summoned. Two prayed aloud in unison.
It was June 2022, and with these seven migrant men — ranging in age from 26 to 54, from Iran, Iraq, Vietnam and Albania — the British government hoped to send a chilling message to anyone crossing the English Channel to enter the United Kingdom without a visa.
They would be deported — not back to the countries from which they'd escaped, but to Rwanda, in central Africa.
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