UK: More than 600 #Brazilians deported by Home Office on three #secret flights

Record number of deportees includes children who may have spent most of their lives in the UK

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.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/01/brazilians-deported-home-office-secret-flights-uk?CMP=share_btn_url