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May 3, 2024

U.K. Starts Rounding Up Asylum Seekers to Be Deported to Rwanda
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The U.K. has started rounding up and detaining asylum seekers as part of
its highly contested plan to deport migrants to Rwanda. Rights groups
are hoping legal challenges can stop the deportation flights, which are
expected to start as early as July. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's
Conservative government overrode a Supreme Court ruling in order to ram
through the policy.

On Thursday, London police arrested dozens of protesters who laid down
on the road and slashed tires to stop a bus from carrying detainees to a
barge that has been converted into a migrant prison. Authorities were
forced to postpone the planned transfer of asylum seekers.


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