Five justices on the U.K. Supreme Court will deliver a judgment on the Conservative government's attempt to overturn a lower court ruling that blocked the deportations.
The saga began when Britain and Rwanda signed a deal in April 2022 to send some migrants who arrive in the U.K. as stowaways or in small boats across the English Channel to the East African country, where their asylum claims would be processed.
The Court of Appeal in June backed a challenge by asylum-seekers from countries including Syria, Vietnam and Iran. The court ruled that the plan was unlawful because Rwanda is not a safe third country and there was a risk that migrants sent there would be returned to the home countries they had fled.
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