Tuesday 7 June 2022 10:28 PM More than half the 130 asylum-seekers facing first deportation to Rwanda have ... trends now
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More than half the migrants scheduled for the first Rwanda charter flight have lodged legal challenges, the Daily Mail can reveal today.
The Home Office has selected 130 individuals for next Tuesday’s operation under a £120million asylum deal with the east African nation.
But lawyers for around 80 of them have already submitted legal challenges asking to stay in the UK.
And Home Office officials expect the remaining 50 will do so this week.
Most of the claims rely on Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights – the right to ‘private and family life’ – or involve allegations of modern slavery. Under laws introduced by Theresa May when she was home secretary, foreign nationals who claim work exploitation can halt immigration procedures against them for 45 days pending an investigation.
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A Home Office insider said: ‘As predicted, specialist immigration lawyers are pulling every trick in the book and exploiting
