DOZENS of people are facing deportation to Nigeria and Ghana tonight on the Home Office’s latest charter flight to west Africa.

A leading charity, Bail for Immigration Detainees, has slammed the scheduled expulsion flight, calling it “nothing more than modern-day transportation, a practice that should have ended in the 19th century when it began.”

The charity’s director Celia Clarke said: “While the public’s attention is diverted by Brexit, people who have made their lives in Britain are smuggled out and face permanent exile from their families and everything they know.”