Britain’s Reform UK party has unveiled a bold immigration plan, promising to set up a new deportation agency modeled on the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to remove thousands of illegal migrants. The party also proposes leaving some human rights treaties if it comes to power.
Britain’s Reform UK party has revealed an aggressive immigration strategy, vowing to create a new removal agency inspired by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to expel thousands of undocumented migrants. The party also plans to withdraw from certain human rights treaties if it gains power.
Zia Yusuf, Reform’s home affairs policy chief, described migration levels as a “national security crisis” and announced that the proposed Deportation Command could handle up to 288,000 deportations per year.
He further pledged to halt welfare payments to foreign nationals and impose travel restrictions on countries that refuse to repatriate their citizens, including Pakistan, Somalia, Eritrea, Syria, Afghanistan, and Sudan.
Although the party holds only eight seats in the 650-member British parliament, Reform UK, led by Brexit campaigner Nigel Farage, is ahead in polls ahead of the next election, expected by August 2029, and is using tough immigration policies to boost its support.
Labour criticized the proposals, noting that the government has already removed nearly 60,000 people without legal status since 2024.
The announcement comes as Channel crossings rise, with over 41,000 asylum seekers arriving by small boat in 2025, the second-highest number recorded.
Yusuf also outlined an “Illegal Migration Mass Deportation Act” designed to legally enforce deportations and restrict judicial intervention, stressing that the UK would avoid the controversies associated with ICE operations in the United States.