Legal actions are being lodged by asylum seekers who say the Home Office locked them up unlawfully before the threatened first flight to the east African country. Home Office sources have indicated they do not accept these claims.
More than 80 of those detained have been granted bail but dozens remain locked up, even though there is no imminent prospect of a plane to Rwanda taking off. The Conservative party has said the first flight will not leave until 24 July if it is re-elected on 4 July, while Labour has said it would scrap the policy.
The Rwanda plan is part of the government's policy to "stop the boats" but more than 11,000 people have crossed the Channel so far this year.
Immigration detainees should be locked up only if they are likely to be deported within a reasonable timescale. Usually, people are detained for weeks rather than months before a planned removal.
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