Migrants arriving off Britain's south coast were being taken into detention ahead of their removal back to France under a new reciprocal cross-Channel treaty.

The "one-in, one-out" deal will see some of those arriving in the UK returned to France.

Some asylum seekers will be sent back across Channel for first time under treaty agreed with French president

British authorities are ‘operationally ready’ and migrant detentions are expected to begin ‘within days’, the UK Home Office said.

LONDON: Britain said it will begin implementing a deal to return some migrants who arrive on small boats to France within days, a key part of its plans to cut illegal migration,…

People detained after arriving in small boat expected to be returned within three weeks, says Home Office

The Home Office confirmed Channel arrivals were held after they were brought into Dover yesterday.

Home secretary says the move ‘sends a message to every migrant currently thinking of paying organised crime gangs to go to the UK’

The detentions came as people arrived in Dover on Wednesday, the first day the pilot scheme came into force.

Migrants arriving off Britain's south coast were being taken into detention ahead of their removal back to France under a new reciprocal cross-Channel treaty.

Home Office releases video of pilot scheme in action to deter asylum seekers plotting a Channel crossing

Video shows the first migrants detained under the UK’s new “one in, one out” deal with Emmanuel Macron, who could be sent back to France within weeks. People who were detained…