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Britain's deportation farce

Britain's deportation farce

"Human rights” culture is now an active threat to the rule of law

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Melanie Phillips
Jun 15, 2022
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Migrants in the English Channel, 2021

Boris Johnson's Rwanda deportation policy has descended into a circular farce.

The British government wanted to deport illegal asylum-seekers to Rwanda, under an agreement reached with that country. It intended to fly out the first such group yesterday.

A succession of appeals by human rights lawyers had reduced the pr…

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