Donald Trump's sharp clampdown on immigration policy CAN be done in Britain, ex-Border Force Director General says

In the Truth Social post, the President decried Americans' "refugee burden" and explicitly called for "reverse migration" or "remigration".

Joined on GB News by Tony Smith, presenter Martin Daubney said: "Donald Trump clearly doesn't take any nonsense straight away."

The President's escalation of migration policies came in the wake of the DC shooting on Wednesday, when two American soldiers were shot, one of whom has since died from her injuries.

Police arrested suspect Rahmanullah Lakanwal, 29, who is from Afghanistan. The US attorney for Washington DC has since confirmed he will be charged with "murder in the first degree".

Later on the day of the shooting, Mr Trump vowed to deport any foreigner "from any country who does not belong here" while Government officials paused processing all immigration requests from Afghans.

"Could that same thing be done in the United Kingdom?" Martin asked.

"Well, in a word, yes. Martin, because we've got a system where everybody other than a British or an Irish passport holder needs permission to enter this country now.

"So you could withdraw those permissions and you could do that through implementation of the visa system to say no to certain cohorts of people, be they certain countries or certain cohorts, you don't want here, that we're not going to issue you with a permission to come here anymore.

"Now, I've never seen a blanket ban on a country like the whole of a country is automatically banned. But technically, it is possible.

"Of course, you will get the usual outcry from others who would say this is outrageous, that it's not sensible. It's not proportionate.

"You would probably get legal challenges, but in terms of technically doing it and stopping people coming into this country, yes, it is feasible."

However, Mr Smith declared that it would not likely happen "because we don't have the political will to do it".

"Would there be resistance at present from our friends at the ECHR? And to do anything like this, to be a Trump in Britain? Will we have to be out of the ECHR to make sure we have total sovereign control?

"So the problem you've got isn't so much with the legal routes and stopping the visas. I think that is within our ability.

"The problem is with your irregular or illegal routes, which we talk about regularly, is that anybody who you know is here or is coming here or makes it here will then invoke the ECHR.

"And that's been our biggest problem for a very long time now, Martin, is that once that is invoked by a 3 or 8 of the Article of the ECHR, then we are powerless to remove them.

While Article 3 prohibits torture as well as inhuman and degrading treatment or punishment, Article 8 entitles individuals to the right to respect for private and family life.

Both clauses in the convention have whipped up problems when the Home Office has attempted to deport foreign criminals, leading critics to call for the UK to withdraw from the document.

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