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What’s the UK’s ‘unlawful’ Rwanda immigration plan?

Adding to a tense relationship, Suella Braverman criticised Sunak's handling of the case following her dismissal [File: James Manning/Pool via AP Photo]

The United Kingdom’s Supreme Court has ruled that a controversial government plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda is “unlawful” in a big blow to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and his government’s hardline immigration policy.

Britain signed a deal with Rwanda last April under which some migrants who arrive in the UK across the English Channel on boats were to be sent to the East African country where their asylum claims would be processed.

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