One in, one out… and back in again: Migrant finally sent to France in Government’s bungled exchange scheme has RETURNED to UK on a small boat

Labour’s ‘one in, one out’ deal with France turned into farce today as it emerged that a man deported under the scheme had returned to the UK on a small boat.

Home Office sources confirmed that the unnamed Iranian first arrived here on 6 August (the first day the French agreement came into force) and was removed from the UK on 19 September.

However, he bypassed the immigrant shelter in Paris where he had previously stayed and returned to the coast of northern France.

From there he took a boat back to the UK, arriving on Saturday, less than a month after he was fired.

Border officials identified him as a returned migrant and he is currently being held at an immigration removal center in Britain.

This farcical back-and-forth journey reveals other serious flaws in the ‘one in, one out’ deal reached between Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and President Emmanuel Macron.

When it was first announced in the summer, senior officials were unable to say what would prevent deported migrants from returning directly to the Channel, saying only that they would be subject to the French immigration system.

The Daily Mail understands that the Home Office is trying to urgently return the migrant, who is currently traveling back and forth, to France.

He was the third immigrant to be deported under the program, following an Indian man on September 18 and an Eritrean man on September 19.

11,298 small boat migrants have arrived in the UK since 6 August, when Labour’s return deal came into force.

Only 42 migrants, including the man who has now returned, were sent back under the French agreement.

A further 23 migrants were allowed to enter the UK under the terms of the deal, allowing them to ‘regularise’ their status. Many are expected to seek asylum.

The deal was heralded as Labour’s flagship measure to tackle the Canal crisis, after the Prime Minister canceled the Tories’ Rwanda asylum plan as one of his first acts in office.

The returned migrant claimed he was unsafe in France and was a victim of modern slavery at the hands of human trafficking gangs.

“If I felt France was safe for me, I would never return to England,” the expat said in an interview with the Guardian.

‘When we returned to France we were taken to a shelter in Paris.

‘I didn’t dare to go out because I feared for my life.

‘Smugglers are very dangerous. They always carry guns and knives

‘On my first crossing from France to England, I fell prey to a human trafficking network in the forests of France.

‘They took me like a worthless object, forced me to work, harassed me, threatened me with a gun, and told me that I would be killed if I objected even the slightest.

‘I was filled with fear and stress every day and every night.

‘I live in fear and anxiety every day, every loud sound, every shadow, every unfamiliar face frightens me.

‘When I first arrived in England the Home Office asked me what had happened and I was crying and couldn’t talk about it because of shame.’

Since Labor came to power, 59,976 migrants have arrived in the UK on small boats.

There is more Border Force activity in the Channel today, suggesting the 60,000 milestone could be reached very soon.

Yesterday the Daily Mail reported that Migration Watch UK, which campaigns for tighter border controls, had calculated that it would take around 300 years at current rates to eliminate all small boat migrants who have arrived since the repatriation agreement came into force.

A Home Office spokesman said: ‘We will not accept any abuse of our borders and will do everything we can to remove those who have no legal right to be here.

‘People who are returned to the pilot and subsequently attempt to re-enter the UK illegally will be removed.’