"There has been quite an arbitrary and chaotic approach to selecting people arriving on small boats without much consideration given, or seemingly any consideration given, to whether they are suitable for return to France. You would think that the government of the UK working with France would be able to select some people particularly in a pilot scheme when there is quite a lot of resources aimed at a small group of people."
"But unfortunately they have been taking this unreasoned approach. You are even seeing children caught up in this process and children being chosen for removal to France when they should be explicitly removed from this process."
"This is one person, it is not going to undermine the fundamental basis of this deal. This decision is disappointing, but it won't prevent the rest of that deal going ahead."
A high court granted a temporary injunction stopping the deportation of a 25-year-old Eritrean man who claimed trafficking and risk of destitution if sent to France. The technology secretary insisted the injunction against this individual would not undermine the overall UK-France one-in-one-out returns scheme and said the wider deal would continue. Legal representatives criticised the selection process as arbitrary and chaotic, saying some arrivals, including children and two misidentified 17-year-olds, were wrongly chosen for removal. The Home Office detained dozens of Channel asylum seekers under the scheme and pledged to return them to France.
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