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The Conservative leader plans a new Removals Force with £1.6 billion funding to deport 150,000 illegal migrants yearly and repeal key human rights laws to speed deportations.
- On Sunday, Kemi Badenoch, Leader of the UK Conservative Party, launched the Radical Borders Plan in a video, creating a new Removals Force modelled on US ICE to deport 150,000 people annually.
- Rising migration pressures have prompted Kemi Badenoch to blame successive Conservative and Labour governments for record small-boat crossings and over 50,000 illegal arrivals this year.
- The plan would grant the Removals Force powers such as using facial recognition technology without warning and conducting immigration checks during routine arrests.
- Legal and policy experts warned legal experts and immigration lawyers questioned deportation feasibility and warned the plan risks breaching international law, while Conservative Party MPs said it aims to counter Reform UK’s rise amid leadership pressure this year.
- The proposal allocates 1.6 billion to the Removals Force, funded by cutting asylum accommodation costs and plans visa sanctions on countries refusing repatriation, which would require renegotiating the European Convention on Human Rights.
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Leader of UK Conservatives vows to deport 150,000 people a year
LONDON — Britain’s main opposition party on Sunday promised that, if it returned to power, it would deport 150,000 immigrants living in the country illegally each year by creating a new removals force with far-reaching powers, modeled on the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency in the United States. Under the plans, announced by Kemi Badenoch, the leader of the Conservative Party, facial recognition technology would be used to track immigr…
Kemi Badenoch vows to deport 150,000 illegal migrants per year in push to outflank Nigel Farage
Kemi Badenoch has unveiled plans to deport 150,000 illegal migrants per year as the Tory leader launches her push to outflank Nigel Farage ahead of her keynote speech at the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester.Mrs Badenoch released her Borders document last night, setting out how a Tory Government would look to end the migrant crisis.The seven-part plan also includes banning asylum claims for illegal entrants, withdrawal from the Europea…
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