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UK to send migrants arriving 'illegally' to Rwanda: Johnson

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Britain is to send migrants and asylum-seekers who cross the Channel thousands of miles away to Rwanda, Prime Minister Boris Johnson announces, as the government tries to clamp down on record numbers of people making the perilous journey. SOUNDBITE

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