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Minister defends move to deploy Royal Navy for English Channel migrant boat patrols

Migration minister Tom Pursglove said the service had been brought in to prevent small boats containing migrants from landing on Britain’s beaches

Wales Online

Boris Johnson wants first asylum seekers flown to Rwanda 'in six weeks'

The Prime Minister is aiming to have the first asylum seekers, who are deemed to have arrived in the UK illegally, flown out to Rwanda in around six weeks in a bid to curb Channel crossings

Daily Mirror

Refugee policy a new low for Tories

A pressing issue is addressing the situation of people crossing the English Channel in boats, often in perilous conditions.

Daily Record

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What the papers say – April 15

Good Friday’s front pages report on Boris Johnson’s controversial scheme to ‘process’ Channel migrants offshore.

The Independent UK

PM's 'cruel' plan to take asylum seekers to Rwanda branded 'inhumane and unlawful'

Boris Johnson claimed the £120m initial deal with Rwanda would stop vile people traffickers 'turning the Channel into a watery graveyard', but admitted the plan could be held up by court fights

Daily Mirror

'Nasty' Rwanda asylum seeker scheme exposed - what it will cost and why it will fail

The UK has signed a five-year deal effective immediately for Rwanda to take Britain’s unwanted asylum seekers. Anyone the Home Office deems 'inadmissible' to claim asylum in the UK can be taken to Rwanda

Daily Mirror

UK Rwanda plan for asylum seekers decried as inhumane, expensive and deadly

Politicians, legal experts and refugee groups condemn Johnson’s plan to ‘offshore’ Channel crossing crisis

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PM braced for legal bids over forced removal of asylum seekers to Rwanda

Migrants, including asylum seekers who enter through unauthorised methods, will be flown 4,000 miles to East Africa under Government plans.

The Independent UK

Hundreds cross English Channel as PM announces Rwanda migration plan

Border Force and the RNLI brought women, children and men ashore in Dover.

The Independent UK

Deal with Rwanda not comparable with Australia’s offshore policy, says Patel

The Government announced a new immigration policy that will see asylum seekers who cross the Channel in small boats sent to Rwanda for processing.

The Independent UK

Channel asylum seekers to be forced onto one-way Rwanda flight under 'evil' Priti Patel plan

People deemed 'inadmissible' for an asylum claim will be put in a hostel in Rwanda and told to make an asylum claim there, which takes three months on average.

Daily Mirror

Govenment plan to ship asylum seekers to Rwanda condemned as 'utterly inhumane' by North East groups

The government claims the scheme will make the system 'fairer' and tackle dangerous channel crossings

Chronicle Live

Johnson puts Navy in charge of Channel as he defends Rwanda migration plan

The Prime Minister accepted the plans to fly some asylum seekers more than 4,000 miles to East Africa will face legal challenges.

The Independent UK

UK asylum seekers sent to Rwanda? That takes punishment of fellow humans to a new level

The government wants to pay large sums of your money to a system already proven to be cruel and ineffective, says Enver Solomon of the Refugee Council

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Daily Mirror

Rwanda asylum seeker scheme may face court fight as Boris Johnson sends Navy into Channel

Boris Johnson unveiled a controversial scheme to fly people deemed to have arrived "illegally" in the UK to Rwanda as he was accused of trying to distract from his Partygate woes

Chronicle Live

People seeking asylum in the UK are to be flown 4,000 miles to Rwanda

The Government is signing a £13220million deal with the African nation

Evening Standard

Boris Johnson sets out plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda amid furious backlash

The Royal Navy will take over responsibility for tackling people crossing the English Channel

The Independent UK

Rwanda to take asylum seekers from UK for processing under Government plans

Boris Johnson is set to argue that action is needed to combat the ‘vile people smugglers’ turning the ocean into a ‘watery graveyard’.

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Al Jazeera

UK to send asylum seekers to Rwanda under controversial new deal

Critics slam plan as unethical and unworkable but PM Johnson says it will ‘save lives’ and disrupt people-smuggling.

The Independent UK

5,000-plus migrants thought to have reached UK this year after crossing Channel

Crossings resumed this week, with large numbers of people arriving in Kent, after few tried the journey in the last week of March amid bad weather.

The Independent UK

Asylum seekers expected to be flown to Rwanda for processing in Government plans

Boris Johnson is set to argue that action is needed to combat the ‘vile people smugglers’ turning the ocean into a ‘watery graveyard’.

The Guardian - UK

P&O Ferries: another vessel detained after ‘deficiencies’ identified

Decision over Spirit of Britain comes as firm planned to resume cross-Channel services for Easter weekend

Daily Mirror

Two friends killed after plane crashes into English Channel - and bodies still missing

Lee Rogers and Brian Statham took off from Wellesbourne Mountford Airfield near Stratford-upon-Avon, on April 2, heading for Le Touquet, France, when they crashed into the English Channel

The Independent UK

Long wait times at Dover crossing costing transport companies ‘£800 per lorry’

The suspension of P&O services at the Channel crossing is causing perishable products to go bad.

Evening Standard

Documents of Brits involved in English Channel plane crash wash up on beach

Official documents belonging to two British nationals involved in a light plane crash in the English Channel have washed up on a beach in France.

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