US EditionWomen and children will be detained under Farage deportation plans
- On Tuesday, Reform UK party leader Nigel Farage launched Operation Restoring Justice at London Oxford Airport, promising mass deportations, scrapping the Human Rights Act, leaving the European Convention on Human Rights, and detaining 24,000 small-boat arrivals.
- Nearly 28,000 people have crossed the English Channel this year, with Nigel Farage saying `The mood in the country around this issue is a mix between total despair and rising anger` as Reform UK leads polls since April.
- Operational measures include mandatory data-sharing across NHS, HM Revenue & Customs and DVLA to locate undocumented migrants, arresting small-boat arrivals for detention and deportation to Afghanistan, Eritrea, Rwanda or Ascension Island, with housing at former military bases and over 100 detainees possibly returned to France.
- Councils and campaigners have launched legal challenges and protests at Bell Hotel and other asylum hotels, while the Home Office appeals court rulings and ministers prepare to return more than 100 arrivals; Reform UK's pledge includes deporting up to 600,000 people.
- Officials warn the proposals will encounter major legal and logistical barriers, noting the abandoned Rwanda scheme cost around £700 million but only removed four people voluntarily, while Government ministers and critics dismiss parts of Reform as `unworkable gimmicks` lacking delivery detail.
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UK's hard-right Reform party says it will mass-deport migrants if it wins power
The leader of Britain’s hard-right Reform party has pledged to leave the European Convention on Human Rights and detain and deport anyone who arrives in the country illegally. Nigel Farage on Tuesday laid out his plans if he wins the…
UK right-wing populist Nigel Farage pledges to deport asylum seekers. Can he do it?
(CNN) — The figurehead of the populist right in the United Kingdom has pledged to deport hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers and withdraw the country from international human rights treaties.
Nigel Farage Announces Plans to Repeal Human Rights Laws to Speed Up Deportations - Real News Now
Nigel Farage, who helms the UK’s Reform UK Party, known for its staunch anti-immigration policies, laid out a proposal on Tuesday aiming to revoke several human rights laws. He stated that this drastic measure was necessary in order to expedite the large-scale deportation of individuals seeking asylum. Farage further specified that his party aims to disentangle Britain from the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), revoke the Human Rights …
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