Trump Mulls Deportation to Rwanda, a Plan the UK Scrapped

It only took one day in office last summer for newly appointed British Prime Minister Keir Starmer to jettison his predecessor’s controversial plan to deport UK asylum-seekers thousands of miles south to Rwanda. First floated by Conservatives in 2022, the UK’s “Rwanda scheme”—which triggered four voluntary removals but no wider expulsion—was “dead and buried before it started,” Starmer said in July at his first press conference from Downing Street, dismissing the whole thing as little more than a “gimmick.”

Now the US is picking up a version of the UK’s discarded playbook as it looks to add the African ...