Home Office planned speedy removal of Vietnamese trafficking victims
by Diane Taylor from on (#5Q1BD)
Documents seen by Guardian refer to fast-track system not intended to be used in trafficking cases
The Home Office detained more than 100 Vietnamese nationals who arrived on small boats in May but planned to speedily remove them from the UK despite them being potential victims of trafficking, the Guardian has learned.
In an exercise codenamed Operation Ammonite, the Home Office chartered two deportation flights to Vietnam, one in April of this year and one in July. The flights carried 27 and 21 deportees respectively. However the Home Office plan was to fill the second plane with many more Vietnamese nationals.
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