Farage says he wants to ‘hijack’ Trump’s ICE czar to help secure UK border

Nigel Farage has declared that he wants to hijack Donald Trump’s hardline ICE adviser and fetch him hame to the UK to secure our borders. Speakand at a gatherin in the US, the Reform UK leader forby urged Europe to tak a mair sensible view o the American president’s admeenistration, rinner than lookin at it as bein villainous.

Farage spak weel o Tom Homan, the adviser on US Immigration and Customs Enforcement. At the event whaur Homan was present, Farage said: I hae bad news for you. We are hijacking Tom Homan and takin him back wi us to secure our borders.

Homan is the primary adviser for Trump on ICE, a body that is unner the lens for its aggressive gait in handlin immigration followin a wheen o deidly shootings by its agents, includin twa folk back in July. Salgado Araujo and Duran Guerrero were the 29th and 30th folk that immigration officers hae opened fire on since Trump took office last year, accordin to The Trace, an ootlet that tracks shootin incidents in its records.

Homan has taen a mair hands-on approach to immigration policy since Trump browcht him in to de-escalate tensions in Minneapolis, the scene o a brutal crackdown in Januar. Durin Trump’s first term, he helped shape some o the admeenistration’s maist draconian measures, maist notably the separation o families, a strategy deemed ower severe by officials in the Obama White House but which later became central to Trump’s zero tolerance policy.

Reform UK has pledged a mair hardline stance on immigration than ony ither mainstream party, promisin mass deportations o folk who hae entered the kintra illegally and the deployment o the Royal Navy to intercept sma boats in the Channel. The party didna respond to a request for comment on whether they wad seek to copy Trump’s style o immigration enforcement unner ICE, which has been criticised for its extreme brutality.

Farage interviewed Homan for his GB News programme last year, describin him as uncompromisin and claimin he had achieved remarkable results on deportations, though he did acknowledge there had been some backlash. On Trump in general, Farage said at the event it was important that our kintra, and Europe forby, gets a better, mair sensible view o America than what is presented by mainstream media, who frankly paint the hale project as villainous.

Farage’s positive words aboot Trump and his circle come after the Reform leader appeared to distance himsel frae the president, sayin back in April that they hadna spoken for mony months and questionin his judgment on the Iran war. His latest trip to the US comes at a time whan relations between the White House and Downing Street are strained ower Iran and policy concernin Israel since Andy Burnham took over frae Keir Starmer.

Burnham is due to hae his first meetin wi Trump in New York next week, wi the US president haein previously described him as extremely liberal but haein also praised him for possibly openin up the North Sea to mair drillin. Farage did, howsomever, disagree wi Trump’s views again this week after the US president said he wad like to see a united Ireland. Northern Ireland is a proud and integral part o the United Kingdom, Farage said. The folk o Northern Ireland want neither a referendum nor unification.