Over 30,000 Migrants on Bail in UK Face Uncertain Deportation to Rwanda

Home Secretary suggests number of deportations under £240m scheme could be 'quite low' as Rwanda Bill faces opposition in House of Lords.

More than 30,000 migrants in the UK, who arrived by irregular means such as small boats, are currently on bail and under threat of deportation to Rwanda.
The UK government's Illegal Migration Act, which came into force in July last year, gives ministers the power to deport these migrants to a safe third country, such as Rwanda, or their home nation.
However, the Home Office has disclosed that the majority of these migrants have been bailed because there is no safe country to send them to as deportation flights to Rwanda have yet to commence.
Home Secretary James Cleverly has suggested that the number of asylum seekers being removed to Rwanda under the £240 million scheme could be 'quite low', but the scheme remains 'uncapped'.
The Rwanda Bill, which deems Rwanda a safe country and ratifies a new treaty with Kigali, is currently making its way through a hostile House of Lords.