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UK's Rwanda asylum plans 'all wrong': UN refugee chief Grandi

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The UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi strongly condemns the British government's plan to send migrants who arrived illegally in the UK to Rwanda. "We believe that this is all wrong, this is all wrong this deal for so many different reasons", says Filippo Grandi during a press conference in Geneva, a day before the first UK-Rwanda flights are scheduled to take place. SOUNDBITE

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