Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has unveiled a “zero tolerance” deportation plan amid warnings there could be a surge in Channel crossings this summer.Farage, who earlier this week confirmed Reform intends to create a Deportations Minister if it wins the next General Election, revealed the populist party “drafted a comprehensive strategy” to deal with the crisis.Writing for The Mail on Sunday, Farage said: “As Prime Minister, I will ensure our country operates a zero tolerance policy for illegal residence.”All measures will be legally robust under British laws. They will also be administratively feasible. Special legislative provisions will be used to overcome legal barriers.”Farage reiterated his commitment to leaving the European Convention on Human Rights and revealed Reform has drafted legislation to circumvent other international treaties.”Specific clauses will ensure that no legally-based asylum or human rights claim can delay removals,” the Clacton MP added.”UK courts will no longer be able to halt deportations by reference to global agreements that work against the interests of the British people.”Farage plans to negotiate agreements to facilitate returns and put pressure on enforcement officers to identify, detain and remove illegal immigrants by charter flight. The Reform UK leader admitted the cost of his proposal remains “significant” but stressed it will save money in the long term.”Allowing illegal immigrants to stay here indefinitely would be more expensive,” Farage said. “The current annual accommodation budget for housing asylum seekers is around £4billion to £5billion. This must end.”Farage even compared himself to ex-US President Barack Obama, highlighting how the Democrat removed more than three million illegal immigrants between 2009 and 2017. Despite Farage’s comments on deportations, Sir Keir Starmer revealed removals have topped 24,000 since Labour came to power.Speaking at the Organised Crime Summit in London last month, the Prime Minister said: “It’s unfair on ordinary working people who pay the price from the cost of hotels to our public services, struggling under the strain, and it’s unfair on the illegal migrants themselves, because these are vulnerable people being ruthlessly exploited by vile gangs.”However, GB News recently revealed that the total number of migrants completing the 21-mile journey from Calais to Kent hit 9,000 this year.Figures released earlier this month also showed that the total number of migrants who have arrived on British shores since Starmer entered No10 also exceeded 30,000 Labour raised eyebrows yesterday after the Home Office instructed the private contractor Serco to offer landlords a five-year guaranteed full rent deal to house asylum seekers.The firm later released a list of local authorities expected to accommodate for incoming waves of Channel crossing migrants.There have also been a number of reports about asylum seekers being granted permission to stay in the UK for a number of bizarre reasons.An Albanian convict avoided deportation due to his son’s aversion to foreign chicken nuggets.Another case highlighted how a convicted paedophile has been kept in Britain over concerns about his struggles with alcoholism. Irfan Khalid, a convicted terrorist who renounced his British citizenship and wants to relocate to Pakistan, was also blocked from voluntary return over human rights concerns.
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