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Martin Pengelly in Washington

Trump aides plot deportation effort inspired by UK Rwanda plan – report

A woman in a hijab with a 'We will not be banned' sign
A women protests then president Donald Trump's travel ban on travel from several primarily Muslim countries, on 26 January 2018. Photograph: Mark Wilson/Getty Images

Aides to Donald Trump working to transform US immigration policy should he return to power are pursuing goals including “the largest mass deportation in US history” while “part-inspired” by the UK government’s deal to ship asylum seekers to Rwanda, the Wall Street Journal reported.

The Conservative UK government reached an agreement with the African country in 2022. Since then, however, the Rwanda policy has proved politically controversial, legally vulnerable, highly inefficient and vastly expensive.

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