Flights to Rwanda containing desperate asylum seekers are scheduled to take off today, though some may be removed after legal challenges.
The government hopes the flights will act as a deterrent to people coming to the UK from across the channel and target people traffickers, though numbers do not appear to have dropped since the plans were announced in April.
Outrage among human rights groups, some MPs and certain sections of the public has been clear and there have been legal challenges to stop the flights from going ahead.
