Farage’s Plan to Deport Thousands of Asylum Seekers Draws Scorn from Legal Experts

THE GUARDIAN: Reform UK leader told scheme is ‘simply not rooted in reality’ after he dodges questions on how it would work

A screenshot taken from this article. | Farage confirmed that women and children would also be detained under the plans. Photograph: Victoria Jones/Shutterstock
Nigel Farage’s plans to deport hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers to despotic regimes such as Afghanistan’s Taliban and withdraw the UK from vital human rights protections have triggered fierce condemnation from legal experts and political opponents, who said the proposals would dismantle Britain’s postwar commitments and shred fundamental rights.

Unveiling Reform UK’s “Operation Restoring Justice” at a combative Oxford press conference, Farage claimed his party would detain and deport “absolutely anyone” arriving by small boat and ensure they are “never, ever allowed to stay”, insisting this would stop crossings “within days” and “save tens and possibly hundreds of billions of pounds”.

Pressed by reporters, Farage confirmed that women and children would also be detained under the plans, conceding that “how we deal with children is a more complicated and difficult issue” but insisting all arrivals would be subject to removal. » | Aletha Adu and Haroon Siddique | Tuesday, August 26, 2025

These days, the world is full of Hitler types, wannabees and Trump clones! Doesn't this dude ever have any original thoughts and ideas? Does he have to copy all his ideas from heartless wannabee dictators, cruel despots and merciless tyrants? What on earth does this loudmouth troublemaker want to make of the United Kingdom? Is it his wish to destroy Britain's reputation in the world, once and for all? — © Mark Alexander

Farage Proposes Mass Deportations, Prison Camps & Leaving the ECHR - Is That a Country We Want?

Aug 24, 2025

Farage is a despicable character and a far-right loon. He has already screwed up the UK economy, but now wants to add insult to injury. Trump is completely f*****g up America, and now Farage, his clone, wants to copy him and f*** up the UK, too. SAY AN UNEQUIVOCAL NO TO FARAGE AND HIS POLICIES! – © Mark Alexander

Trump's Inhumane Deportations akin to Nazi Roundups, Creates Constitutional Crisis

Mar 18, 2025 | A federal judge today questioned whether the Trump administration ignored his orders to turn around planes carrying deportees to El Salvador, a possible violation of the decision he’d issued minutes before. This comes after J.D. Vance suggests that Europe needs to embrace Nazi sympathizing views. Anthony Davis reports on the connection between this regimes deportations and European history.

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Texas Offers Trump Huge Ranch Where He Can Build His Deportation Camps

Nov 24, 2024 | The incoming Trump administration has made it clear that they are going to build massive deportation camps as they round up “millions” of immigrants to be deported. And the state of Texas has decided that they are happy to oblige, and they’ve now offered Trump a huge, 1,400 acre “ranch” where he can build his migrant camps. There is little that can be done to stop this, and all we can do is keep warning everyone about how bad this is going to be for the country, as Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins explains.

Diese „Deportation Camps“ klingen genau wie Konzentrationslager! Werden wir unter dem Führer Trump das Dritte Reich wieder erleben? Grausamkeit scheint wieder in Mode und Zeitgeist gekommen zu sein! Das ist nicht das, was ich von einem Land erwartet hätte, das sich so sehr dem Christentum verschrieben hat! – © Mark Alexander

Trump to Go ‘Full Steam Ahead’ with Mass Deportations

Nov 11, 2024 | “We’ve heard constantly during the campaign that Donald Trump would enact policies to remove potentially millions of people from the US.”

Tom Homan’s appointment as Trump’s ’border tsar’ is a “clear sign” the president-elect will go “full steam ahead” with his mass deportation plan, says Alistair Dawber.

What Trump's Mass Deportation Plan Might Look lLke If He Wins the Election | 60 Minutes

Oct 28, 2024 | Immigration experts say Donald Trump's mass deportation plan, if carried out, could be complicated and cost billions a year. It could also lead to more family separations.

The High Cost of Trump's Mass Deportation Plan | Robert Reich

Premiered Oct 23, 2024 | Trump’s #1 campaign promise would wreck the economy and rip families apart.

Thousands in Hamburg Rally against Far-right 'Master Plan' | DW News

Jan 20, 2024 | Tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets of the German city of Hamburg to protest against the far right. It follows revelations that members of the Alternative for Germany party held a secret meeting to discuss the mass deportation of immigrants and German citizens of foreign origin. The AfD is under domestic surveillance in several German states - and there have been calls to ban the party entirely.

Lithuania's Dark Past | DW English

Under Stalin's dictatorship, more than 200,000 Lithuanians were deported to Siberia. Many never returned. Survivors are still waiting for compensation, but Russia doesn't want to remember its prison camps and mass deportations.