Reform UK wants to bring Ice to British streets

Reform UK’s Zia Yusuf addresses party conference in 2024 (Pic: Wikimedia commons)

Reform UK wants to bring an Ice-style agency to Britain—whose sole purpose is deporting people.

The racist party’s home affairs spokesperson Zia Yusuf promised a brutal and violent crackdown on migrants in a chilling speech on Monday.

He said that immigration has created “a national emergency” and Reform UK “will launch an emergency programme to track down, detain and deport all illegal migrants”.

The party will “direct every ­instrument of the state to ensure that illegal migrants are removed”.

It will set up a UK Deportation Command, a British version of Immigration and Customs Enforcement in the United States and “rapidly build detention capacity”.

Yusuf promised that five ­deportation flights would be carried out every day.

He said that a Reform UK ­government would leave the European Convention of Human Rights to help achieve this ambition.

“There will not be a judge in this country that will be able to ­prevent flights from leaving,” he ­continued, “Flights will not be stopped. Deportations will not be delayed.”

Yusuf committed to removing the indefinite leave to remain status, replacing it with five year work visas.

Another policy announcement was a visa ban for migrants from Pakistan, Somalia, Eritrea, Syria, Afghanistan and Sudan.

The far right politician said that Reform UK will “terminate welfare payments to foreign nationals”, fund a huge expansion of stop and search and ban the conversion of churches into mosques.

Reform UK’s all-out attack on migrants comes as a crucial ­by-election in Gorton and Denton, Greater Manchester on Thursday.

The Reform UK candidate Matt Goodwin is seeking to become the racist party’s ninth member of parliament.

Goodwin is a racist and a ­misogynist who has said he wants to pause all immigration.

His campaign has been endorsed by fascist Tommy Robinson and he has been forced to suspend ­campaign manager Adam Mitula for sharing racist comments online.

Mitula used the n-word and said he would “never touch a Jewish woman”.

Working class people must be ­prepared to fight tooth and nail against these policies, and do ­everything they can to push back against the racist party in our workplaces.