IT’S hard to imagine what it will feel like for any migrant from Afghanistan, Iraq or similar country to be dumped in Kigali this week if Priti Patel’s first deportation flight to Rwanda manages to clear last-ditch court hurdles and take off tomorrow.
The High Court judge, Mr Justice Swift, admitted last week that the experience will be “onerous”, while rejecting an earlier legal challenge, and it seems certain that it will be disorientating and potentially frightening and traumatising for anyone who is sent.
