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Illegal immigrants will be deportd by the five EU countries by joint charter flights (Photo: Airbus)

Charter flights to deport illegal immigrants

Interior ministers from France, Germany, the UK, Italy and Spain agreed to organise joint charter flights to deport illegal immigrants, during their meeting in Evian, France on Tuesday (5 July).

Under the scheme, a charter airline, dubbed "Asylum Airways" by the UK daily the Times, and "Migrant-air" by the Guardian, will fly from country to country picking up illegal migrants.

"We think that foreigners with no right or entitlement to be in our countries should not stay. They are i...

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Illegal immigrants will be deportd by the five EU countries by joint charter flights (Photo: Airbus)

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