LONDON: A Channel migrant who re-entered Britain by small boat after being removed to France under a new migration deal was deported again on Wednesday, the UK government said.
The asylum seeker, reportedly from Iran, was sent to France on September 19 — the third removal under the so-called one-in-one-out agreement struck by London and Paris — but then returned on October 18.
The Guardian reported the man had intended to seek asylum in Britain on the basis he was a victim of a human trafficking network operated by smugglers in northern France.
Interior minister Shabana Mahmood said in a statement Wednesday he had been detected by biometrics and detained instantly.
“His case was expedited, and now he has been removed again,” she added.
