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Reform UK's Controversial Asylum Plan

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Reform UK unveils controversial asylum policy: up to 400,000 illegal entrants to be detained and deported if they win the next general election. The plan targets those who entered illegally in the past five years, reviews past asylum grants, and aims to leave the European Convention on Human Rights and the Refugee Convention. Small boat arrivals continue to rise, with over 70,000 since Labour took office.

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Reform UK's Controversial Asylum Plan

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UK News Today | 2 Min News | The Daily News Now!Reform UK's Controversial Asylum Plan. Machine-transcribed; use the interactive transcript above to jump the player to any line.

0:00On April 19, reform UK just dropped a bombshell policy if they snagged the next general election around 2029, up to 400, thousand asylum seekers get detained right away and shipped out. They're targeting anyone who slipped in illegally over the last five years, straight from small boats, truckbacks, or fake papers. The plan digs deeper, reviewing all asylum grants from those five years to young status from overstayers and folks from now safe countries. Dependents go too, with a grace period to bounce voluntarily before the UK's new deportation command kicks in. Curried detention spots hold under 3,000, so expect pop-up centers everywhere. Party spokesman Zia Yusuf blasts Tory and labour for running open borders, calling it an invasion they rewarded instead of stopping. Home office stats show about 55% of recent applicants came the wrong way, so most in the crosshairs lose their humanitarian protection. Former once out of the European Convention on Human Rights and the 1951 Refugee Convention

1:02plus a fresh illegal migration mass, deportation act, meanwhile, small boat hits. Keep climbing, 602 landed Saturday, pushing this year's total past 6,000 and 70,000 seven. 101 since labour took over. Conservatives say they're copying their playbook but skimping on execution details. First, they hot-node out.

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