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Humanitarian groups challenge UK-France migration deal in French court

Migrants wait to board a smuggler's boat in an attempt to cross the English Channel off the beach of Gravelines, northern France, on 19 September 2025. © Sameer Al-DOUMY / AFP

Seventeen humanitarian and activist groups filed an appeal on Tuesday in France to block a British-French migration deal that lets the UK return migrants arriving by boat in exchange for taking an equal number of visa-approved migrants from France.

The so-called “one-in, one-out” plan was signed in July and took effect in August as Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s government faced growing pressure to control record levels of immigration.

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