Children and women included in Reform plan to immediately deport 90,000 asylum seekers

Reform UK has unveiled its toughest immigration proposals yet, including plans to integrate enforcement measures deeply into UK systems and deploy aerial surveillance to track individuals. The party’s policy would fast-track deportations of up to 90,000 asylum seekers and introduce a five-year ban on future asylum claims, explicitly excluding children and mothers from exemptions. Critics, including refugee charities, have dismissed the measures as impractical and a departure from Britain’s historical support for war victims. The announcement comes as the party pushes for stricter controls amid growing debate over migration policies.

Farage’s party says it would ‘embed’ immigration enforcement in UK and use ‘aerial imaging’ to identify peopleUK politics live – latest updatesChildren and mothers would not be exempt from plans by Reform UK to immediately deport 90,000 asylum seekers and impose a five-year ban on people being granted asylum.The party’s most hardline immigration policies to date were condemned by refugee charities and others as “unworkable” and an abandonment of Britain’s tradition of helping victims of war after they were announced by Nigel Farage on Monday. Continue reading...