Sunak plans to detain migrants with the aim of sending them to Rwanda

LONDON (EFE).- Britain’s Conservative government plans to launch a process on Monday to detain asylum seekers across the United Kingdom in preparation for their deportation to Rwanda, The Guardian reported on Sunday.

According to the newspaper, authorities will detain potential refugees attending routine meetings with immigration authorities and transfer them and others to detention centers.

Given this news, a Home Office source told the BBC that the operation has reached its final stages and arrests are expected in the coming weeks.

Deportation of migrants arriving in Britain

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak previously said the first charter flights to the African country would depart “within ten to twelve weeks”.

This is after the British Parliament last Tuesday approved with a Conservative majority the law declaring Rwanda a “safe country” for the deportation of migrants arriving in the United Kingdom via irregular routes.

Sunak issued this law after the High Court previously found his Rwandan plan unlawful and concluded that Kigali did not provide sufficient guarantees to protect human rights.

The Guardian newspaper indicates that speeding up the arrest process of potential deportees could be a government strategy to improve its prospects ahead of municipal elections scheduled for Thursday in England, in which the ruling party faces a possible historic defeat.