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First migrants detained under returns deal with France

UNITED KINGDOM, AUG 6 – Under the pilot scheme, about 50 migrants per week will be returned to France while an equal number of approved asylum seekers will enter the UK via safe routes.

  • The first group of migrants to cross the Channel were detained under a new UK-France deal and will be held until they can be returned to France.
  • Under the pilot scheme, adults arriving on small boats can be detained and returned to France in exchange for other asylum seekers with a link to the UK.
  • The deal aims to crack down on smuggling gangs amid a record number of people making the dangerous Channel crossing.
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Britain has begun sending migrants back to France under a new exchange program, allowing them to deport 50 people a week.

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On Thursday, August 7, the government reported that it had detained the first migrants to be sent back to France in the coming weeks, CNews said. This first transfer will be carried out within the framework of the Franco-British treaty, which just entered into force on Wednesday, August 6.In early July, Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron, during a state meeting in the United Kingdom, agreed on a principle of migrant exchanges. An agreement aimed a…

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France24 broke the news in France on Tuesday, August 5, 2025.
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