Reform UK will create an "Ice-style" agency as the party's shadow Home Secretary Zia Yusuf is set to announce plans to deport nearly 300,000 people a year.
Mr Yusuf is set to announce plans to create a new agency, the UK Deportation Command, with the capacity to detain 24,000 migrants at a time and deport up to 288,000 annually on five flights a day.
Experts have previously said the costs of such an expansion would be massive, as of April 2024 there were approximately 2,500 detention spaces.
Mr Yusuf will tell a press conference later today: "For decades, the Tories and Labour have turned the other way while the very fabric of our society has been under assault.
"The social contract has not merely been broken; it’s been shattered. Under a Reform government, His Majesty’s parliament will be sovereign once again.
"We will secure our borders, leave the ECHR, and deport those here illegally. My message to the British people is simple: I will secure our borders and make you feel safe."
The plans were slammed as "un-British" by Labour Chair Anna Turley, who said: "Britain is a proud, tolerant and diverse nation, which stands in opposition to the kind of divisive politics stoked by Reform."
Liberal Democrat home affairs spokesman Max Wilkinson said "[Reform's] Trump-inspired plans for an Ice-style force will only bring chaos and disorder to Britain’s streets, not the order and control our immigration system needs.
"Far from rescuing the economy or making us safer, Reform’s plans are a serious threat to Britain’s economy and to our NHS, police and other key public services."
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