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It comes ahead of the Governments bid to get flights to send migrants to the east African nation off the ground by July, after the Safety of Rwanda Act became law last week.

In what seems like a watershed moment for the government’s Rwanda plan, the first migrant has been sent to the country from the UK. Only, um, it’s not actually the primary Rwanda deportation scheme that’s supposed to stop the small boats. No, this man voluntarily relocated to the central African country after being offered up

The detentions come following the passage of the Safety of Rwanda Act, which declared the central African nation a safe country for failed asylum seekers to be sent to.

The Home Office said a series of operations took place across the country this week.

Business Secretary Kemi Badenoch defended handing £3,000 to a failed asylum seeker after he agreed to move to Rwanda - with critics branding the move a costly gimmick

Sixty asylum-seekers have arrived at a site earmarked for migrants in Newtownmountkennedy, Co Wicklow

The first illegal migrants set to be removed to Rwanda have now been detained, following a series of nationwide operations this week.

EXCLUSIVE: Ray Bassett said the Irish Justice Minister was intent on blaming the British Government, Brexit and the Rwanda Act rather than her own failures.

Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer faced each other ahead of Thursday’s elections in England and Wales

Up to 200 asylum-seekers who were moved from Dublin's so-called tent city this morning have been relocated to facilities at the Citywest hotel in Dublin and at a site in Crooksling in Co Dublin.