U.K.’s Hard-Right Reform Party Says It Will Mass Deport Migrants If It Wins Power; Nigel Farage: This is a Massive Crisis. We Need Mass Deportations; UK's Farage Unveils Plan to Deport Asylum Seekers, Warns of 'civil disorder’

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U.K.’s hard-right Reform party says it will mass deport migrants if it wins power:

Nigel Farage, the leader of Britain’s hard-right Reform UK party, said Tuesday that if he wins the next election he will leave the European Convention on Human Rights and immediately detain and deport anyone who arrives in the country illegally, including children.

Farage laid out his plans to tackle illegal immigration following a significant rise in the number of migrants who arrive by boats across the English Channel, and weeks of protests over the government’s use of hotels to house asylum-seekers.

“If you come to the U.K. illegally, you will be detained and deported and never, ever allowed to stay, period,” Farage told a press conference.

“The mood in the country around this issue is a mix between total despair and rising anger,” he added, claiming there is now “a genuine threat to public order” if no action is taken.

He said the issue of “how we deal with children is much more complicated,” but added: “Women and children, everybody on arrival will be detained.”

Despite holding just four of the 650 seats in the House of Commons, Farage ‘s party has gained momentum by seizing on public frustration over successive governments’ inability to bring down the number of migrants coming by boat. National polls have suggested that support for Reform equals or surpasses that of the ruling Labour Party and the Conservatives.

Farage, who has long sought to link problems such as public healthcare and housing to migrant arrivals, reiterated his stance that the U.K. is being “invaded” by migrants. He said he would introduce policies to mass deport hundreds of thousands of people over the first five years of being in government. --->READ MORE HERE

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Nigel Farage: This is a massive crisis. We need mass deportations

The Reform UK leader believes he will have one shot at No 10 — and next week will make his biggest move yet

Nigel Farage has had little time off this summer. Where most other politicians have been keen to head off for a much-needed break, he has spent most of it working — although not of his own volition.

“It has been a total catastrophic disaster,” he says, speaking in his constituency office in Clacton-on-Sea. “I tried to have a couple of weeks off. I was called away four times. I was having a week on the coast in Kent, I was having a week in Cornwall.

“Cornwall was important to me because all four of my adult children and grandchildren were there. Then there was a massive fire in Clacton. So I had to come back for that.

“And there were two other big donor visits and going to see JD [Vance, the US vice-president], which wasn’t a bad thing. I’m busy as hell.”

The Reform UK leader believes this is his “do or die” moment — his one shot at No 10. Britain, he says, is “going downhill very, very quickly” and there needs to be a “massive turnaround”. He argues he is the man to do it.

Two years ago such a statement would have been deemed fantasy. Now, with Reform having consistently led in the polls since April, it is no longer an unrealistic prospect. Sir Keir Starmer has even decided to treat him as the real leader of the opposition, all of which has served to give Farage an even bigger platform.

Next week, Farage will make his biggest move yet. On Tuesday he will publish his proposal for the mass deportation of hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants. To describe the plans as aggressive is an understatement.

They include the arrest of asylum seekers on arrival, automatic detention and forced deportation, with no right of appeal, to countries such as Afghanistan and Eritrea.

There are plans for deals with third countries such as Rwanda, a “fallback” option of sending people to British overseas territories such as Ascension Island and new criminal offences for people who return to the UK or destroy their identity documents.

The NHS, HM Revenue & Customs and the DVLA will be required to share data automatically so illegal immigrants can be tracked down and arrested. Every element of the plan is contentious and it is likely to encounter huge practical, political and legal obstacles. Farage appears to embrace the controversy.

“The aim of this legislation is mass deportations,” Farage says. “We have a massive crisis in Britain. It is not only posing a national security threat but it’s leading to public anger that frankly is not very far away from disorder. There is only one way to stop people coming into Britain and that is to detain them and deport them.” --->READ MORE HERE

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