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Priti Patel's new scheme for sending failed asylum seekers to Rwanda will start next week, it has been reported.
The first migrants to be sent to the central African nation will be single men and it is expected that they will be notified by Home Office lawyers in the next few days, according to The Sun.
However, the flagship plan may not start for months in the face of legal action by human rights groups.
Priti Patel's new scheme for sending failed asylum seekers to Rwanda will start next week
A Home Office source told the newspaper: 'The first referrals will be going next week, so people will be put on notice.'
The Home Secretary's team is ready for legal challenges, while Boris Johnson lashed out at 'liberal lawyers' for delaying his plan to send thousands of migrants from the UK to Rwanda - and vowed to 'get it done'.
The Government had wanted
