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Despite the many objections, when it was still in the discussion phase, Great Britain has started the implementation of the plan for sending asylum seekers to Rwanda.
On Monday, the first asylum seeker was sent, while this paves the way for the sending of other persons.
The person who was sent was from an African country. He agreed to be sent to Rwanda, after being refused asylum, in exchange for a payment of £3,000 a month. His journey was made by commercial aircraft, reports France24.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's government has made the fight against illegal immigration a priority as it hopes to regain ground in the main opposition Labor party ahead of a general election expected later this year.
The controversial law, which has been criticized by the United Nations and rights groups, allows Britain to deport undocumented migrants to Rwanda, where they will be allowed to stay if their asylum claims are successful, as whether
The British government said on Monday it expects to send a first batch of 5,700 asylum seekers to Rwanda by the end of the year.
These asylum seekers have been selected from more than 57,000 people who arrived illegally in the UK through the English Channel between the beginning of January 2022 and the end of June 2023, according to an AFP report based on official figures.
The start of the operation, which comes weeks earlier than expected and coincides with local elections on Thursday, in which the Conservatives risk losing hundreds of seats.
The UK High Court previously blocked an earlier plan to carry out the transfers and campaigners have said they will seek to use the courts again to block the latest attempt.
The case is likely to end up at the European Court of Human Rights, which in June 2022 issued a last-minute injunction to prevent the first deportations to Rwanda.
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