Afghan pilot who served with British forces and fled to UK faces deportation to Rwanda under government's controverisal migrant plan
The air force lieutenant, who has not been named to protect his family in Afghanistan, flew 30 combat missions against the Taliban. But he has since been forced into hiding.
The government has said that it will send Afghans to Rwanda if it finds that people passed through a safe European country makes them “inadmissible” for asylum in the UK.Rishi Sunak and Suella Braverman heckled by angry woman during walkabout in Essex town over migrants rowThe pilot said he had no choice but to travel to the UK in a small boat because there were no other viable safe routes.
"Every day they threaten to send us to Rwanda or our original country," he continued. "I don’t know what we should do. In an email to the pilot, a Home Office official said that, despite a final decision on his case being yet to be made, it had evidence that he had been in Italy, Switzerland and France before reaching the UK.
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