UK aims to send migrants to Rwanda in months if courts agree

Britain’s government says it could start deporting asylum-seekers to Rwanda in the next few months if U.K. courts rule that the controversial policy is legal

Date:	Mar. 19, 2023 2:32 PM ET
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