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Brits don't want ICE in the UK
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Brits don't want ICE in the UK
Over half of Brits have a very or fairly negative view of Donald Trump’s Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency.
Trump came into office promising mass deportations, and his ICE agency has detained tens of thousands of migrants since.
At the beginning of the week, Reform UK’s Zia Yusuf pledged to bring a version of ICE to the UK.
Yusuf said in a speech in Dover on Monday that the UK’s ICE equivalent would have the capacity to detain 24,000 migrants at a time.
However, polling carried out by YouGov on Tuesday suggests that Brits do not approve of ICE.
The figures show that 63% of people in the UK have a very or fairly negative view of the immigration enforcement agency.
Only 11% of respondents said that they had a very or fairly positive view of it.
ICE has been condemned for its violent tactics, including recently fatally shooting unarmed citizens, Alex Pretti, Renée Good and Keith Porter.
Responding to the poll, internationalist campaign group, Best for Britain, said: “Two-thirds of Brits have a negative perception of ICE in the USA. Brits do not want ICE in our country.”
“We do not want communities ripped apart, violence in the streets, or identity being used as a weapon of an oppressive government.”
Olivia Barber is a reporter at Left Foot Forward
A terrifying prospect: Reform pledge to create ICE-style agency
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While scenes from America of ICE agents shooting U.S. citizens would’ve shocked most ordinary people, Reform have pledged to create a similar ICE-style agency in the UK.
The party’s spokesperson for Home Affairs, Zia Yusuf, has said that Reform will create a UK Deportation Command’, which would have capacity to detain up to 24,000 migrants at any time and will run five deportation flights a day if Reform wins power, the party will announce.
Reform have also said that they will end the indefinite leave to remain (ILR) status, should it come to power. The Labour Party has condemned the plans saying that they are divisive and show that Reform was planning “to deport people who have followed the rules, worked hard and built their lives here – our friends, neighbours and colleagues”.
The Labour party’s chair, Anna Turley, said the policies were “a direct attack on settled families and fundamentally un-British”. She added: “Britain is a proud, tolerant and diverse nation, which stands in opposition to the kind of divisive politics stoked by Reform.”
Yusuf has said that the ICE-style deportation agency will deport up to 288,000 annually on five flights a day.
Shocking images of violence and killings carried out by ICE officers in the U.S. have made headlines in recent weeks.
In one of the most recent incidents, federal agents shot and killed an intensive care unit nurse who had joined protests against an immigration crackdown.
Alex Pretti, a US citizen who lived in Minneapolis and worked as a nurse, became the second person to be fatally shot in the city during the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement crackdown this month.
Pretti is understood to have joined protests after Renee Good, also 37, was shot dead by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent in her car earlier this month.
Bystander videos showed Mr Pretti with a phone in his hand, and his family insist he was not holding a gun when shot.
Despite most people being shocked at the violence, Reform it seems are keen to replicate an ICE-style agency in the UK.
Basit Mahmood is the editor of Left Foot Forward
23 February, 2026
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While scenes from America of ICE agents shooting U.S. citizens would’ve shocked most ordinary people, Reform have pledged to create a similar ICE-style agency in the UK.
The party’s spokesperson for Home Affairs, Zia Yusuf, has said that Reform will create a UK Deportation Command’, which would have capacity to detain up to 24,000 migrants at any time and will run five deportation flights a day if Reform wins power, the party will announce.
Reform have also said that they will end the indefinite leave to remain (ILR) status, should it come to power. The Labour Party has condemned the plans saying that they are divisive and show that Reform was planning “to deport people who have followed the rules, worked hard and built their lives here – our friends, neighbours and colleagues”.
The Labour party’s chair, Anna Turley, said the policies were “a direct attack on settled families and fundamentally un-British”. She added: “Britain is a proud, tolerant and diverse nation, which stands in opposition to the kind of divisive politics stoked by Reform.”
Yusuf has said that the ICE-style deportation agency will deport up to 288,000 annually on five flights a day.
Shocking images of violence and killings carried out by ICE officers in the U.S. have made headlines in recent weeks.
In one of the most recent incidents, federal agents shot and killed an intensive care unit nurse who had joined protests against an immigration crackdown.
Alex Pretti, a US citizen who lived in Minneapolis and worked as a nurse, became the second person to be fatally shot in the city during the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement crackdown this month.
Pretti is understood to have joined protests after Renee Good, also 37, was shot dead by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent in her car earlier this month.
Bystander videos showed Mr Pretti with a phone in his hand, and his family insist he was not holding a gun when shot.
Despite most people being shocked at the violence, Reform it seems are keen to replicate an ICE-style agency in the UK.
Basit Mahmood is the editor of Left Foot Forward
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