The London High Court declined this Friday to prevent the first deportations of asylum seekers in the United Kingdom to Rwanda, where their requests will be processed, according to the plans of the Government of Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
The Executive has already notified about 130 immigrants who have started the deportation process, and next Tuesday he has chartered a first flight in which he wants to transfer 31 people to the African country.
Lawyers representing two of the affected migrants began the legal claim that the London court assessed todaywhile another hundred people have also launched legal actions.
Raza Husain, representing the plaintiffs, argued this Friday before the court that the procedure “is not safe” for his represented and criticized the “arbitrariness” of process.
Judge Jonathan Swift refused to stop deportations by not considering it “balanced” to extend a “generic exemption” to migrants who are going to be sent to a center in Rwanda. Thus, he remains to wait for the case is transferred on Monday to the Court of Appeal.
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Valuation process
Under the new programme, people applying for asylum in London after having entered the country through means considered “illegal” They will be transferred to the African country. Once there, their application will be assessed and, if accepted, they will be offered long-term accommodation in Rwanda.