The UK government confirmed Wednesday it had detained an unspecified number of migrants in recent days for deportation to Rwanda in July under its controversial new policy.- Missing migrants - A senior minister said Tuesday the government expected to deport 5,

Human rights group Asylum Aid said on Friday it had launched a legal challenge against the British government's policy of sending asylum seekers to Rwanda, which Prime Minister Rishi Sunak aims to launch within weeks.

A video released by the British Home Office shows officers enforcing the Safety of Rwanda Act, which allows the government to round up asylum seekers and deport them to the African country. (Courtesy:

The policy could send detained asylum seekers to the Central African country within weeks. Britain’s parliament passed a law last month declaring Rwanda a safe country for migrants, a move designed to overrule a ruling last year by the U.

The British government has initiated a series of operations aimed at detaining migrants for deportation to Rwanda, marking the implementation of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s immigration policy. The UK Home Office,