British Home Secretary Suella Braverman said on Sunday she was convinced Rwanda was safe to settle migrants who arrived in Britain irregularly, but declined to set any deadline for the first deportations there.
Braverman said the Supreme Court examined our arrangement with Rwanda, found it was a safe country, and concluded that "our arrangements are legal."
In a related context, the British newspaper The Guardian confirmed on Saturday the death of a detainee in one of the detention centers for asylum seekers in Britain, at a time when the government intends to house them in military bases and ships, in order to reduce hotel costs.
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has decided to make stopping illegal crossings into the English Channel towards the kingdom one of his priorities.
The interior minister visited Rwanda in March to speed up the deportation deal for asylum seekers.
The British government earlier promised to step up action to tackle the problem after the number of people making the journey rose to more than 45,<> last year.
Britain is seeking to send tens of thousands of migrants to Rwanda as part of a 120 million pound ($146 million) deal London has reached with Kigali. The partnership was announced in April 2022, but the first deportation flight was banned by order of the European Court of Human Rights.