People believed to be migrants aboard a small boat heading to the UK from France (Picture: Gareth Fuller/PA Wire)
Another migrant who was returned to France under the ‘one in,one out’ deal is to be sent back again after he took another small boat to the UK.
The Home Office said the man was immediately detected by biometrics and detained,and he would be returned ‘as quickly as possible’.
It is the second known time someone who was initially deported under the scheme has returned to the UK on a small boat.
An Iranian man made the journey back across on October 18,a month after he was flown across to France.
He was returned by the Home Office last Wednesday.
The ‘one in,one out’ deal was initially struck to provide a deterrent for people wishing to make the journey across the Channel,by introducing the risk they would immediately be deported.
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