UK High Court Rules in Favour of Government’s Controversial Rwanda Policy, Saying It Is ‘Lawful’

Police officers stand near a plane reported by British media to be first to transport illegal immigrants to Rwanda at MoD Boscombe Down base in Wiltshire, Britain, on June 14, 2022. Hannah McKay /Reuters

The High Court in London has ruled in favour of the British government’s plans to send illegal immigrants to Rwanda, and to leave them there if they have their application for asylum in the UK rejected.

On Monday, two judges at the Royal Courts of Justice ruled that the policy was “lawful.”