A scheme will see people being rounded up for removal in the coming week under a France-UK deal to bring down soaring numbers of small boat crossings in the Channel.
Anyone who enters the UK on a small boat faces being held at Manston processing centre and removed to France if their asylum claim is deemed invalid.
It is expected to initially see just 50 people a week sent to France – in contrast to the weekly average of more than 800 people arriving on UK shores this year.
This will mean an equal number of migrants to the number of those deported will be eligible to come to the UK so long as they have not attempted an illegal crossing before.
And those subject to deportation will undergo screening to ensure suitability for detention, the Government said, with additional space already set aside in anticipation in removal centres.
Ministers said they were “prepared to robustly defend any legal challenges” to the removals.
The Government is under huge, sustained pressure to show progress in bringing down the number of small boat arrivals.
Experts have warned that the policy could fail if the risk of being sent back to France is small and low numbers of migrants are returned.
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Pressed on the issue of rising migrant numbers, No 10 said: “We’ve never shied away from the scale of the problem that we face. It’s worth remembering that for almost a decade, these gangs have been allowed to embed their global smuggling networks almost unchecked, and that’s the scale of the challenge that we’re intent on changing.”
Cooper described the deal – the first of its kind with France – as “an important step towards undermining the business model of the organised crime gangs that are behind these crossings – undermining their claims that those who travel to the UK illegally can’t be returned to France”.
Cooper said the pilot would be developed “step by step” with different approaches trialled throughout. She is continuing to look at potential returns deals with other countries.
The Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp said the deal would return “just 6 per cent of illegal arrivals” and “make no difference whatsoever”.
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