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Home Office could send refugee families to Rwanda, minister admits
Immigration Minister Robert Jenrick arriving in Downing Street, London, ahead of a Cabinet meeting. Picture date: Tuesday January 17, 2023.

CHILD asylum-seekers could be deported to Rwanda with their families, a Home Office minister admitted today.

Robert Jenrick confirmed that the government was considering deporting refugee families who arrive in Britain together to the African country. 

He told MPs on the women and equalities committee that leaving families out of the policy entailed a “range of risks.”

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