Reform UK's Bombshell Asylum Policy: 600K Deportations?

0:00On April 20, reform UK is dropping a bombshell policy. If they snag the next general election, they'll launch an immediate review of every asylum. Claim from the last five years. That could put around 400,000 people on the deportation fast track. Anyone granted asylum, overstaying a visa, or hailing from what? They'd call a safe country. The party, led by Nigel Farage, wants to crank it up further by pulling the UK out of the European convention on human rights to speed up removals. They'd also scrap permanent settlement rights after five years and build on their earlier vow to block small boat arrivals, eyeing up to 600,000 deportations over five years. Conservatives are calling you to copycat move without the media details, while liberal Democrats slam it as an impractical mess that had just clogged the asylum backlog even more. Labor's firing back, highlighting their own tough stance like busting trafficking gangs and clearing out asylum hotels.

1:00Reforms Home Affairs spokesman Zia Yusuf says they've got to restore justice after years of what he calls an invasion rewarded by past governments. Meanwhile, labor points to their wins, stopping over 42,000 channel crossing since the election and deporting nearly 60,000 folks with no right to stay. Labor's Shadow Home Secretary Chris Filp boasts their own detailed plan for weekly deportations and 150,000 removals a year, saying reforms just plan catch up. As the immigration debate heats up, all eyes are on how these pledges shake out come election time.