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UK Returns 19 Migrants to France Amid New Deal
10/10/2025
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- UK Home Office released footage of the first removals under the UK-France deal.
- Two flights returned 19 migrants to France in the past week. The second landed today.
- Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood says deterrence is the goal, contrasting with the £700m Rwanda scheme (four removals).
- Nine people arrived in the UK from France this week via a new legal route.
