He still has the footage on his phone that shows everyone holding onto the dinghy while donning matching red life jackets, including a few ladies and kids.
The administration had already made plans to transfer asylum seekers to Rwanda at that time.
He received a letter alerting him that he is under consideration for deportation, but up until this point, he had never given it much thought.
The man using by the pseudonym Kidus claims that prior to his departure from France, a people smuggler gave him the assurance that the government would not carry out the plan, stating that the Rwanda policy would not impact him.