Farage rows back on including women and children in deportation plans
Reform UK plans to increase detention capacity by 24,000 and allocate £2 billion to persuade countries to accept deportees, excluding women and children for now.
- Nigel Farage and Reform UK announced a mass deportation plan targeting over 650,000 people living illegally in the UK, excluding women and children for now.
- The plan follows rising concern about immigration and illegal residents, backed by an Early Day Motion urging a national strategy to deport all illegal immigrants.
- Reform UK aims to detain new arrivals at expanded removal centres and disapply international treaties like the 1951 Refugee Convention to facilitate deportations.
- Farage described the deportation of unaccompanied minors as a challenging and sensitive matter and indicated that plans do not currently include addressing cases involving women and children.
- The proposal could reshape UK immigration policy significantly, but critics accuse Reform UK of divisiveness and policy inconsistency amid rising far-right tensions.
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FacebookLikeShareTweetEmail Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has unveiled plans for “mass deportations” of refugees arriving in small boats, aiming to expel 600,000 migrants, amid predictions he could become the next prime minister. Farage, the leader of the right-wing populist party Reform UK, said his party would bar anyone who comes to the UK on small […]
Farage rows back on plan to deport children as part of migration crackdown
On Tuesday, Nigel Farage indicated the party would detain and deport women and children as part of their plans - but the following day insisted media reports which said he would do so were ‘wrong, wrong, wrong’
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