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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Mark Townsend Home affairs editor

Priti Patel wants to restart controversial small boat ‘pushbacks’

Priti Patel during a visit to Thames Valley police in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, last week.
Priti Patel during a visit to Thames Valley police in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, last week. Photograph: Andrew Boyers/PA

Sex abuse survivors, human slavery and torture victims are among at least 19 people who have been warned in recent days that they face being deported to Rwanda as the Home Office keeps faith with its “brutal” policy before a major legal challenge this week.

As signs mount that Priti Patel’s new plan for immigration is faltering, details have emerged of the next cohort of asylum seekers whom the home secretary wants to send on a deportation flight to Africa.

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