Former Brexit Nigel Farage activist presented plans for “mass deportations” of migrants who crossed the Lamanský Strait on small boats on Saturday. They want to realize it if his party Reform UK is formed another British government, TASR reports according to Reuters.
In an interview with The Times, he said he would withdraw Britain from the European Convention on Human Rights and sign agreements with Afghanistan, Eritrea and other countries to repatriate their illegal migrants. “We can be nice to people, we can be nice to other countries, or we can be very claimed to other countries. I think (US President Donald) Trump has done it quite clearly,” Farage said.
Security or responsibility
Asked whether it was worried that asylum seekers would be killed or tortured if Britain has sent them back to countries with insufficient human rights, Pharta replied that he was more concerned about the threats that asylum seekers represent for the British. “I can’t be responsible for despotic regimes around the world. But I can be responsible for the safety of women and girls on our streets,” he said.
In Britain, small protests in front of hotels where asylum seekers are accommodated are regularly held in recent weeks, partially stimulated by concern for public security after some migrants were accused of sexual assault.
Migration and the public
Wider polls show that immigration and asylum are the greatest public concern – just before the economy, and the Reform UK party, which has won five seats in last year’s parliamentary elections, according to the latest surveys in preferences.
Last year, 37,000 people arrived in Britain from France through the Laman Strait on small boats, mostly from Afghanistan, Syria, Iran, Vietnam and Eritrea. The total number increased by a quarter compared to 2023 and represented nine percent of pure migration. According to data from Oxford University, about two thirds of people who come on small boats and apply for asylum are successful and only three percent of them are deporting the authorities.
Plans for deportations
“The aim of this legal norm is mass deportations,” said Farage, adding that the “massive crisis” caused by asylum seekers encourages public anger and provokes an emergency.
The Times said Farage wants to create 24,000 migrants of £ 2.5 billion and operate five deportation flights a day, with a total number of deportations to reach hundreds of thousands of deportations. If it did not work, asylum seekers could be detained on the island of Ascension, the British territory in the South Atlantic to send a symbolic message, Farage said.
