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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Diane Taylor

More than 600 Brazilians deported by Home Office on three secret flights

A Home Office deportation aircraft: the government has never removed any one nationality in such large numbers.
A Home Office deportation aircraft in 2022: the government has never removed any one nationality in such large numbers as with those sent to Brazil. Photograph: Finnbarr Webster/Getty Images

More than 600 Brazilians, including 109 children, have been secretly removed from the UK – on the three largest Home Office deportation charter flights in history – since the Labour government came to power, the Observer has learned.

The Home Office has never before removed any nationality in such large numbers on individual deportation charter flights. It is thought that children have never before been removed on these flights.

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