Reform UK have said they would abolish indefinite leave to remain in the UK which campaigners have warned would be not only "economically devastating but unconscionably cruel".
Party leader Nigel Farage has said, if elected, Reform would stop migrants being able to apply for permanent residency in the UK after five years, and force those with settled status to reapply for new, stricter visas.
Applicants would have to meet certain criteria, including a higher salary threshold and better standard of English, and some would be prevented from bringing family members to the UK.
Naomi Smith, chief executive of Best for Britain, said:
“You only have to look to the US to see how this kind of policy can play out where masked gangs are abducting people in the street and tearing families apart.
“Reform’s Trump-style plan to deport thousands of people from the UK who have the legal right to be here, and who even may have been here for decades, would not only be economically devastating but unconscionably cruel.”