Migrants deported by Donald Trump set to be sent to Rwanda hotels built by Britain

deported by may be housed in hotels paid for by British taxpayers, reports claim.

The Rwandan government will discuss housing people removed from America in facilities that were built by the UK, it is understood today. When asked if the British facilities would be used for the American scheme, a Rwandan government official reportedly said: "Those are details that will be discussed at an appropriate time."

Under the new agreement, Rwanda would join the list of "third countries" where Mr Trump's administration sends deportees, similar to El Salvador. The US President has been criticised for , including Kilmar Ábrego García, who last week . Rwanda has already received some migrants from the US, including at least one Iraqi national, according to a diplomatic cable TV station.

But Britain's use of the accommodation has been blasted and was days after . The Tories had introduced it, however just four migrants were sent to the African state, all voluntarily.

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Olivier Nduhungirehe, Rwanda's foreign affairs minister, said the country was in the "early stage" of talks with Mr Trump's administration. The US has already struck a similar deal with El Salvador. Mr Nduhungirehe told : "This aligns with our broader policy of offering second chances to migrants facing challenges in various parts of the ."

When Mr Starmer axed the deportation plan here, the Tories insisted the programme hadn't started. However, it received legal clearance from the High Court of Justice and was scheduled for June 14, 2022 - two years before came to power. Yet, it hit snags, such as a last-minute interim measure by the European Court of Human Rights. Labour has instead diverted the money to fund a new Border Security Command, designed to use counter-terror style powers to end people-smuggling gangs.

But it is thought some £700million of taxpayers' money went into the Tories' plan, including £290million in payments to Rwanda, as well as the costs of chartering flights that never left the ground. It also cost the taxpayer to detain hundreds of people and then release them, and to pay for more than 1,000 civil servants to work on the scheme.

Britain spent at least £318million to pay for asylum facilities and boost economic development in Rwanda, it is reported today. More than 40 per cent of Brits surveyed in a YouGov poll in April 2022, weeks before the scheme was to start, said they disagreed with the Conservative Party's programme.