The first controversial deportation flights with refugees from Great Britain to Rwanda are scheduled to start on June 14th.

The Home Office in London announced on Tuesday that it had sent the notifications to the first migrants who had entered the country illegally.

It is the "final administrative step" to bring an agreement with Rwanda into force.

The agreement provides that people who have arrived illegally in Great Britain can be flown to the East African country and apply for asylum there.

The conservative government wants to deter refugees and implement a Brexit promise.

Recently, the number of people who cross the English Channel in boats that are hardly seaworthy has increased significantly.

Home Secretary Priti Patel in particular was therefore under a lot of pressure.

Human rights activists accuse Prime Minister Boris Johnson's government of violating the right to asylum in the deal with Rwanda.

Asylum seekers can settle in Rwanda

Johnson explained the plan six weeks ago.

Accordingly, Rwanda will initially receive 120 million pounds (about 144 million euros) for the cooperation.

The focus is on single young men, especially those who are seen as economic migrants.

Rwanda offers asylum seekers the opportunity to settle permanently in the African country.

"This approach has never been tried before, it's something new," explains government spokeswoman Yolande Makolo.

“We see ourselves as part of the solution to a global problem.

Africa does not always have to be the recipient of ideas or solutions, we can also offer solutions.”

In recent years, Rwanda has repeatedly presented itself as a refugee-friendly country.

Almost 130,000 refugees, including from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi, Libya and Afghanistan, are currently registered there.

"Many Rwandans were refugees themselves," explains Makolo.

There is also an EU-backed agreement between the UN refugee agency, the African Union and Rwanda to take in refugees from Libya.

And according to media reports, Denmark is already planning a deal similar to Great Britain's with the government in Kigali.

Autocratic Rwanda 'one of the safest countries in the world'

Rwanda gets political recognition and a strong financial injection.

Against this background, the fact that the autocratic regime is accused of persecuting members of the opposition pales in comparison.

Instead, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson recently declared that Rwanda "is one of the safest countries in the world" and has the capacity to resettle tens of thousands of migrants in the coming years.

"Our world-leading partnership with Rwanda is a key part of our strategy to overhaul the broken asylum system and disrupt the business model of evil people smugglers," Patel said.

Although there will be attempts to delay the processes and deportations, she will not be deterred by this, emphasized the hardliner, whose family had once arrived in Great Britain as refugees themselves.

"Since Great Britain no longer has the opportunity to make use of the Dublin Agreement due to Brexit, it can no longer send refugees back to the countries of arrival, such as Italy," summarizes Nicole Hirt, Africa expert at the Giga Institute in Hamburg.

“But migration cannot be prevented.

People won't stop trying.