FARAGE: 'I WILL DEPORT 600,000 ILLEGAL MIGRANTS'

NIGEL Farage has vowed to deport 600,000 illegal immigrants during his first term if he becomes PM.

- Michael Knowles

The Reform UK leader also pledged to set up a Deportation Command to find every illegal arrival living here with five removal flights departing daily.

Mr Farage, unveiling his borders plan, Operation Restoring Justice, insisted that the UK must leave the European Convention on Human Rights, repeal the Human Rights Act and ignore key refugee treaties.

He promised to ape Donald Trump's mass-deportation policy and order Home Office Immigration Enforcement staff to carry out "large-scale raids" across the country.

Reform would also build "modular accommodation" to detain up to 24,000 migrants within 18 months of Mr Farage taking power.

Addressing his party's efficiency tsar Zia Yusuf, Mr Farage said: "Do we realistically think Zia, that we can deport 500,000 to 600,000 people in the lifetime of the first Parliament?"

Mr Yusuf responded “Totally,” and said there are “north of 650,000 adults without children who are in this country illegally”.

Mr Farage said: “If you come to the UK illegally, you will be detained and deported and never, ever allowed to stay, period. That is our big message from today.”

Under Reform’s plans illegal migrants would not be allowed to leave the “Secure Immigration Removal Centres”, comprised of “prefabricated two-person rooms”, canteens and medical suites.

Defending the stance during a news conference at Oxford Airport, Mr Farage insisted it is what “normal countries” do.

He said: “Will Border Force be seeking out people who are here illegally, possibly many of them working in the criminal economy? Yes, it’s what normal countries do.

“What sane country would allow undocumented young males to break into its country, to put them up in hotels, even get dental care? How about that? Most people can’t get an NHS dentist. This is not what normal countries do.”