Reform threaten to put immigration removal centres in Green Party-controlled areas
George Lithgow, Press Association Political and Home Affairs Correspondent
Reform UK has said it will prioritise setting up immigration removal centres in areas controlled by the Greens because of the party’s open borders policy.
Areas that vote in a Reform council or a Reform MP would be guaranteed not to have a centre nearby, Nigel Farage’s party said.
The Greens described the announcement as “abhorrent”.
Announcing the policy in a social media video, Zia Yusuf, Reform’s home affairs spokesman, said people will get “what they vote for”.
“Zack and his Green Party say they want Britain to have no borders at all,” he said.
“A Reform government will not put any migrant detention centres in any constituency with a reform MP.
“We will not put them where Reform controls the council, and of the remaining areas, we will prioritise Green parliamentary constituencies and Green controlled councils to put those migrant detention centres.”
His party has pledged to deport up to 288,000 illegal migrants a year if it wins the next general election.
This would include creating an agency to carry out mass deportations akin to US President Donald Trump’s Ice programme.
Speaking about the proposed immigration centres in the video, he said: “Migrants will not be able to leave these detention centres, and each will be held there for a couple of weeks before being deported.”
Responding to the announcement, which came in the days before Thursday’s elections, Green Party deputy leader Mothin Ali said: “Reform keep making abhorrent announcements to distract voters from they fact they want to privatise the NHS.
“Greens are focused on building council housing, fixing our public services and bringing down the cost of living.”
Jeremy Corbyn took to social media to say: “Reform want to round up migrants and detain them indefinitely in areas that don’t vote for them.
“Yet for most of our media, it’s those marching for Palestine who are creating hatred & fear. These disgusting plans are an affront to democracy — and must be fiercely opposed.”
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A stupid divisive message. Who is taken in by this style of politics?
Mouth breathing knuckle draggers who can’t see beyond brown people in boats.
I imagine that they would be welcome.
A vote for reform is a vote for concentration camps now, plain and simple, same model as the US. A certain failed Austrian painter used the same method to get power and when in power in the 30’s.
And what followed was hell on Earth.
You imagine wrong.
Just revealing how vile and immoral these people are! Who in their right mind would vote for such spiteful vile people?
Unfortunately they have millions of spiteful vile people in England, many have also migrated to Cymru over the years and brought their colonist claptrap with them.
Very true but we have plenty of our little Quislings.
Akin to Franco’s treatment of Republican areas of SpaIn after the Civil War.
What can we expect next?
They have James Orr advising as well. He should be no where near politics. But then reform have a type.
Same advisors as trump. £5+ million buys you farage, farage does as he is told.
It is quite evident that Zia Yusuf, Reform’s home affairs spokesman, does not understand what an immigration removal centre is. Here is a list of the current ones. Brook House, Gatwick Campsfield, Oxfordshire Colnbrook, Middlesex Derwentside, County Durham Dungavel House, Lanarkshire Harmondsworth, Middlesex Larne House, Antrim Tinsley House, Gatwick Yarl’s Wood, Bedfordshire They are located mainly near airports or MoD airfields or are pre-existing detention centres, located for practicality. The issue with such facilities is that once a deportation order is made, it is not acted upon swiftly. Also a proportion of those detained have committed criminal offences and at… Read more »
Simple answer to that. If a Reform voter wanders into a non-Reform area then put them in a detention centre. See how they bloody like it.
Was there a more repulsive Uncle Tom than this man?
Scraping the bottom of the pol7cy barrel as per usual. It’s really worrying sharing a country with people who actually think this is a good idea.
This is actually not too dissimilar that happened by accident in germany. It’s amazing to see the general change in attitude since then. Those who were pro immigration have realised the strain it puts on local community. Green party have changed from open door policy to finally agreeing deportations are essential in some cases. I know to his isbt a popular decision but there is a disproportionate number of immigrants in the South east and surrounding regions for a number of reasons. We’ve been quite insulated in wales
No, it wasn’t an accident in Germany. It was the plan. As is the plan here.
Immigration is not a problem. The problem is reform and tory.
Rachael Millward (Green party) has been objecting against asylum seekers being housed in her own community!
Despicable, juvenile, performative spite. GOP Wanna-be’s.
The stunning irony is that Cymru has no immigration problem legal or illegal. We have become the dumping ground for all o England’s social ills however. North East Wales from Liverpool and Manchester predominantly very few work many on drugs costing the Welsh tax payer millions and millions of pounds in health, education social services and police.,The same for Mid Wales Birmingham, Stoke on Trent etc. and South Aales Bristol and all the way up the M4 corridor