Migrants arrive at Dungeness beach after attempting to cross the English Channel on small boats
(Picture: AFP via Getty Images)The government’s controversial Rwanda policy has heralded an increase in the use of immigration detention for migrants arriving in boats, a charity has warned.
“Around about May or June, we noticed a significant number of people being detained, having recently arrived in the UK, and having been issued with paperwork notifying them of the government’s intention to remove them to Rwanda,” Bail for Immigration Detainees (BID) research and policy manager Rudy Schulkind told the Standard.
