A migrant who returned to the UK by small boat less than a month after being removed to France under the “one-in, one out” scheme has been removed again.<\/p>\n
Home Office sources said a returns flight on Wednesday morning included the man who was removed on 19 September, before he returned to the UK on 18 October.<\/p>\n
The Iranian man claimed to have been a victim of modern slavery at the hands of smuggling gangs in France.<\/p>\n
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood said the man’s case had been expedited after he was detected by biometrics and detained. She added: “Anyone looking to return to the UK after being removed under the UK-France agreement is wasting their time and money.<\/p>\n
“My message is clear: if you try to return to the UK you will be sent back. I will do whatever it takes to scale up removals of illegal migrants and secure our borders.”<\/p>\n
The man, who has not been named, previously told the Guardian he returned to the UK because he feared for his life in France.<\/p>\n
Speaking about his alleged treatment at the hands of smugglers, he said: “They took me like a worthless object, forced me to work, abused me, and threatened me with a gun and told me I would be killed if I made the slightest protest.”<\/p>\n
So far, 94 migrants have been removed from the UK as part of the treaty in which the UK agrees to take in asylum seekers who have a case for protection and have not attempted to cross the Channel illegally.<\/p>\n
Under the scheme, 57 people have come to the UK from France.<\/p>\n
More than 36,000 people have crossed the English Channel in small boats since the start of the year.<\/p>\n
Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch previously said the case showed the government was “in total chaos”, adding in an X post that it was “too weak to take the tough decisions to secure our borders”.<\/p>\n
Maddie Harris, director of Humans for Rights Network, previously told BBC News her organisation had been in contact with the Iranian man.<\/p>\n
She said he was experiencing “acute fear” after his first removal from the UK due to his treatment by smugglers.<\/p>\n
“While in France he experienced horrendous treatment at the hands of the people who are organising journeys to the UK,” she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A migrant who returned to the UK by small boat less than a month after being removed to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123157,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-123156","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}