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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Lizzie Dearden

Rishi Sunak’s Rwanda admission sparks legal action from detained asylum seekers

Migrants wade to a smuggler’s boat at Dunkirk in April.
Migrants wade to a smuggler’s boat at Dunkirk in April. Photograph: Sameer Al-Doumy/AFP/Getty Images

Asylum seekers detained by the Home Office and threatened with deportation to Rwanda are set to take legal action against the government after Rishi Sunak admitted that no flights will take place before the general election.

The Home Office started raiding accommodation and detaining people who arrived at routine immigration-reporting appointments on 29 April in a nationwide push codenamed Operation Vector.

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