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Migrants ‘to be offered thousands to move to Rwanda voluntarily’

Source: PA Wire

Migrants who have been refused asylum will be offered thousands of pounds to move to Rwanda under a new “voluntary” scheme as the Government faces an ongoing parliamentary battle over its stalled deportation plan.

The proposals are separate to the ambition to send people to the east African nation to have their claims processed there instead of in Britain and have already been agreed with Kigali, it is understood.

The scheme is designed to remove migrants who have no legal right to stay in the UK but cannot be returned to their home country, as first reported

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