2026-02-24
10 分钟This is The Guardian.
Hundreds of thousands, millions of people potentially would be at risk of deportation.
We will create a new agency, UK Deportation Command,
which will have just one mission to track down and detain those in this country illegally.
So a lot of people who are here completely legally at risk of deportation as well,
and actually makes it much more extreme than the policies that Donald Trump is pursuing in the US.
Reform UK has announced plans for an ICE-style agency that could deport hundreds of thousands of people every year.
Plans that Labour have condemned as divisive and un-British.
From the Guardians today in focus, this is the latest with me, Lucy Hough.
And joined by Jessica Elger, the Guardian's Deputy Political Editor.
Thanks so much for dialing in from Parliament, Jessica.
It's great to see you.
So Zia Youssef just stood up in Dover at a press conference with Shadow Home Secretary.
This being, of course, a Reform UK press conference,
announcing a new ICE-style agency dedicated to deporting thousands of people.
These are plans that seem alarming and extreme?
Tell me about what's the EU surface announced today?
I mean, it's not reform, don't use that term, but it's clear what this agency is modelled on.
He says he would create this Agency of the UK Deportation Command,
which should be dedicated to deporting hundreds of thousands of people as well.