{"id":63283,"date":"2025-09-18T16:00:33","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T16:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/first-migrant-deported-to-france-under-one-in-one-out-deal\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T16:00:35","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T16:00:35","slug":"first-migrant-deported-to-france-under-one-in-one-out-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/first-migrant-deported-to-france-under-one-in-one-out-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"First migrant deported to France under ‘one in one out’ deal"},"content":{"rendered":"


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The first flight carrying a cross-channel small boat migrant has landed in Paris, under the UK-France agreement. <\/p>\n

The man, an Indian national, was removed from the UK on Thursday morning on an Air France plane.<\/p>\n

The government is launching an appeal against a High Court decision to temporarily block the deportation of an Eritrean man<\/a> on modern slavery grounds.<\/p>\n

The arrival in France, confirmed by the Home Office, comes a little over a month since the countries agreed a year-long pilot “one in one out” scheme of exchanges of migrants in the hope it will help to deter small boat crossings.<\/p>\n

“This is an important first step to securing our borders,” Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood said. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“It sends a message to people crossing in small boats: if you enter the UK illegally, we will seek to remove you”, she added.<\/p>\n

Later on Thursday, US President Donald Trump was asked at a joint news conference in Chequers about what advice he would offer to Sir Keir Starmer on border control.<\/p>\n

“I told the prime minister I would stop it, and it doesn’t matter if you call out the military, it doesn’t matter what means you use,” Trump said.<\/p>\n

In response, Starmer said: “This is an issue we are taking incredibly seriously, we have struck a number of cooperation deals with other countries because this is a problem right across Europe.<\/p>\n

“We struck the returns arrangement with France and notwithstanding the challenges to that scheme that you’ve seen in the last few days, a flight went off at 06:15 this morning successfully returning someone in that scheme.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In a separate case on Thursday, the High Court in London heard that a second man is set to be deported from the UK on Friday.<\/p>\n

Sonali Naik KC, representing the unnamed man who was granted anonymity, said: “The removal directions are set for 06:15 tomorrow morning.”<\/p>\n

Mr Justice Sheldon said the man has “a number of different medical needs and he asserts he has been a victim of trafficking”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Around 5,590 migrants have reached the UK since the scheme came into effect at the start of August.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile a government appeal has been launched, aimed at limiting the time migrants have to provide evidence to challenge their removal.<\/p>\n

Further deportation flights are planned this week and into next week, the Home Office said.<\/p>\n

Initially, it was thought another person would be leaving on a flight on Thursday – but the BBC understand this is now not going to happen.<\/p>\n

The Home Office also said the first arrivals from France through the new asylum route are expected in the UK in the coming days.<\/p>\n

“The UK will always play its part in helping those genuinely fleeing persecution, but this must be done through safe, legal, and managed routes – not dangerous crossings,” it added.<\/p>\n

Mahmood earlier vowed to fight “vexatious, last-minute claims” after the High Court intervened this week in the case of an Eritrean man who <\/b>argued, after arrival in the UK by small boat last month, that he was a victim of modern slavery just hours before his flight was due to take off.<\/p>\n

But the UK’s independent anti-slavery commissioner told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme she was “deeply concerned” about the home secretary’s words.<\/p>\n

Eleanor Lyons said that suggesting the system was being abused created a “tool for traffickers to use with those victims that they are exploiting”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The “one in one out” deal is intended to act as a deterrent against migrants attempting to make the treacherous English Channel crossing in small boats.<\/p>\n

It proposes that, for each migrant the UK returns to France, another migrant with a strong case for asylum in the UK will come in return.<\/p>\n

Under the treaty, the UK can immediately detain anyone who crosses the English Channel and, within around two weeks, agree with the French authorities to return the individual.<\/p>\n

The aim of the plan is to make people think twice about turning to smugglers because of the risk that they will be sent back. <\/p>\n

There is no suggestion from either government that the plan will, on its own, smash the cross-channel trade.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n


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