Home secretary says the move ‘sends a message to every migrant currently thinking of paying organised crime gangs to go to the UK’
Migrants who arrived in the UK after crossing the English Channel have been detained under the new “one in, one out” deal, PA Media reports. PA says:
The first detentions came as people arrived in Dover on Wednesday, the first day the pilot scheme came into force.
Pictures showed the migrants wearing life jackets disembarking from Border Force boats.
The Home Office said detentions began for those who arrived on Wednesday afternoon and they will be held in immigration removal centres until they are returned to France.
