The first migrants of 2025, picked up at sea attempting to cross the English Channel from France, are helped to disembark froma Border Force vessel in Dover, southeast England, on January 4, 2025. HENRY NICHOLLS / AFP
A second flight deporting a migrant from the United Kingdom to France took off on Friday, September 19, after he lost a legal challenge to stay his return, the British interior ministry said. The deportee was believed to be an Eritrean man whose removal got the green light after he lost an 11th-hour legal challenge in the High Court on Thursday night.
He had arrived on UK shores on a small boat in August, and asked to delay his deportation to be allowed to challenge it, arguing he was allegedly a victim of human trafficking.
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