Mark White has blasted the Government as "farcical" thank to their inability to execute deportation flights, declaring the situation has descended into farce.
The Home and Security Editor drew parallels with the previous Conservative administration's troubled Rwanda scheme, which never succeeded in deporting a single asylum seeker despite repeated attempts.
Speaking on Britain's News Channel, Mark said: "Well, it just goes from bad to worse. We could have written this script months ago.
"There were always going to be challenges, and that is exactly what has happened. These lawyers, who are experts at using every possible angle to secure the best outcome for their clients, have been active and are lodging last-minute challenges.
Mark White said that the situation is 'farcical'
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"So once again, another flight left for Charles de Gaulle with its scheduled passengers, but none of the migrants the Government had promised would be included in these returns. It’s becoming farcical.
"This is the same Government that lampooned the Conservatives when they tried to get Rwanda flights off the runway, only to be blocked by last-minute 'pyjama injunctions'.
"Not a single migrant was ever flown to Rwanda under that scheme. There were some voluntary returns, but none under the Rwanda plan itself.
"And now it looks like this Government is just as incompetent if not more so than the last. They certainly don’t appear to have been properly prepared for the inevitable legal challenges.
"The images you’re seeing now are those released by Government photographers months ago to showcase deportation flights for foreign national offenders and visa overstayers not small boat migrants.
"They were very keen to publicise those images. But, of course, there are no such images of Air France flights carrying scheduled customers but no migrants.
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"The fact is there are multiple grounds on which lawyers can appeal. One of them concerns what France intends to do with these migrants.
"If, as reported, France is planning to send them back to their home countries, then that presents a potentially significant case to argue before an appeal court judge on the grounds that migrants are not being given a proper opportunity to pursue an asylum claim."
Tuesday morning's scheduled deportation ended in failure when an Air France service departed Heathrow for Paris carrying only regular passengers.
Monday's attempt to initiate the deportation programme met similar failure when attorneys successfully prevented their client's removal at the eleventh hour.
The second flight has set off with no migrants
| PAThe Home Office has scheduled multiple deportation attempts throughout the week, with asylum seekers receiving removal notices for Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.
Sources indicate more than two flights are planned for Wednesday alone, though the pattern of legal interventions appears set to continue.
The Government's ambitious timeline for launching the returns agreement with France faces mounting obstacles as lawyers secure delays for individual cases
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