'We're working on first fight to Rwanda' Priti Patel states as she repeats commitment to clamp down on illegal immigration and says officials are working 'at pace' to finalise relocations.
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Two dozen Albanians were deported on the 5th May in a move that the home secretary said showed her tough approach to the 'scourge of illegal migration'.
Within the group, there was a man smuggled across the Channel by boat less than two months ago.
Others on the charter flight included foreign criminals who had been jailed for a total of 56 years, including for firearms and drug offences as well as assaulting an emergency services worker.
Another one of the deportee's had reached the UK, in the back of a lorry in 2015, while another had over stayed his visa by a year.
It was the 24th flight this year, many being disrupted by legal challenges and Covid-19.
'The British public rightly expect us to crack down hard on those abusing the system, and today's flight is a demonstration of that.'
Patel added that the Home Office officials 'are working at pace to finalise our first relocation flight to Rwanda' amid fears that the policy to report migrants arriving by dinghy risks being delayed.
No10 admitted that the plan may be months away while Boris Johnson attacked 'liberal-left layers' trying to block it.
Around 60 migrants crossed the channel on the 5th, bringing the total for the week to more than 700.
696 people arrived by small boats in the first 3 days of May.
An alleged 'Kingpin' was arrested in east London on the 4th. Hewa Rahimpur is believed to be a 'major player' in one of the criminal networks that finds boats to take migrants from France to England.
He is now set to face justice in Belgium where he is wanted by the authorities.
The 29-year-old Iranian man appeared at Westminster Magistrates' Court in the afternoon as extradition proceedings began.
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