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The U.K. Supreme Court has struck down a plan to send asylum-seekers to Rwanda

Protesters stand outside the Supreme Court in London on Wednesday. (Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP)

LONDON — In a massive defeat for the British prime minister, the United Kingdom's Supreme Court unanimously ruled Wednesday that the government's controversial immigration policy is unlawful.

The country's top court has blocked Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's flagship policy that would send asylum-seekers to Rwanda, whose authorities would process their claims.

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