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600 Brazilians Deported by UK Home Office on Three Secret Flights
More Than 600 Brazilians Deported by UK Home Office on Three Secret Flights....
Record number of deportees includes children who may have spent most of their lives in the UK
The Guardian 2 DEC 2024
More than 600 Brazilians, including 109 children, have been secretly removed from the UK ? on the three largest Home Office deportation charter flights in history ? since the Labour government came to power, the Observer has learned.
The Home Office has never before removed any nationality in such large numbers on individual deportation charter flights. It is thought that children have never before been removed on these flights.
According to freedom of information data seen by the Observer, the three flights were on 9 August, when 205 people including 43 children were removed; 23 August, when 206 people were removed, including 30 children; and 27 September, when 218 people were removed, including 36 children. All the deported children were part of family units, and many of them would have been settled at school and are likely to have spent most if not all of their lives in the UK.
The returns were classed as voluntary and were likely to include people who had overstayed their visas. The Home Office offers incentives for voluntary returnees of up to ?3,000 including for babies and children. The sweeteners are provided in the form of pre-loaded cards that can be activated once people touch down in their home country.
The government is keen to trumpet its deportation credentials with figures published on Thursday revealing 8,308 enforced and voluntary returns between July and September 2024, a 16% increase on the same period last year. The majority ? 6,247 ? were voluntary returns, an increase of 12% on this category of returns during the same period in 2023.
While the government is keen to promote the numbers returned they have failed to mention publicly that the destination of these historic deportation flights was Brazil.
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