NEW IMMIGRATION POLICY – 12-point plan to end and reverse mass immigration

The Heritage Party has updated its immigration policy for this year’s edition of the manifesto. It centres on an achievable 12-point plan that will halt and reverse mass rapid unsustainable immigration of the last 30 years.

The new Heritage Party policy on immigration is as follows:

Immigration – Controlling Our Borders

Since 1997, a program of mass immigration has been imposed on the UK. The people were never consulted on this huge and rapid influx, which has caused unsustainable pressure on resources, overcrowding and cultural concerns.  

We will halt and reverse mass immigration with our 12-point plan:

  • Declare a state of emergency in the English Channel. Prevent illegal boats crossing the Channel from entering British waters and return them to France
  • Leave the ECHR 
  • Leave the Barcelona Declaration, Marrakesh Declaration and UN Global Migration Compact
  • Deport all foreign criminals
  • Deport all bogus asylum seekers and illegal immigrants
  • End welfare and free housing, healthcare and education for foreign nationals in the UK
  • Assist migrants losing welfare and free housing to return to their own countries
  • Increase jail sentences and financial penalties for facilitating illegal immigration or employing illegal migrants
  • Reduce work and workers’ dependents’ visas from 408,000 per year (in 2024) to 100,000 per year
  • Reduce student and students’ dependents’ visas from 415,000 per year (in 2024) to 100,000 per year
  • End resettlement programs that deliberately facilitate migration from Afghanistan, Ukraine and other countries to the UK
  • Increase citizenship qualification from 5 years to 20 years continuous residency with requirements to speak fluent English and be culturally assimilated

Ending Mass Rapid Immigration

The population of the UK rose officially by 10 million between 2000 and 2025, from 59 million to 69 million, mostly through ultra-high net immigration, but this figure does not include millions more undocumented illegal immigrants and is likely to be much higher. It has been exacerbated by previous governments which signed the UK into the ECHR whose foreign judges have made rulings preventing our nation from fully controlling our own borders, as well as the UN Global Migration Compact, the Barcelona Declaration, and the Marrakesh Declaration, which are globalist schemes designed to encourage and normalise mass immigration without a democratic mandate. The Heritage Party will withdraw from these three schemes, and bring the era of mass, rapid immigration to an end.

It is the poorest communities which have borne the consequences of mass, rapid immigration. The political and economic beneficiaries of mass immigration do not have to share their resources, space or facilities with the millions of migrants they have let into the country, and they are shielded from the consequences of their decisions. These include unaffordable homes, wage compression, packed trains, a lack of school places and huge pressure on doctors’ surgeries and Accident & Emergency units in the towns and cities where immigration levels have been the highest, as well as a housing crisis as it has simply not been possible to build homes for 9 million extra people in 20 years.

Legal immigration must be brought down to sustainable, balanced levels, with strict caps on specific classes of immigration such as students and low-skilled and unskilled workers. Skilled workers should be allowed to come to the country for specific jobs on time-limited work visas where there is a shortage of British workers, but this must not be at the expense of training up British young people with the skills they need in every profession. Sham marriages and chain migration must be stopped, and illegal immigration must be halted entirely and reversed.  

Citizenship

Since 2000, successive governments have given out 3,927,000 British citizenships to foreigners, with 269,000 being given out in 2024. The criteria for obtaining British citizenship are appallingly slack, with large numbers of citizenships given out after just 5 years in the country attending a sham University course or delivering pizzas, after which the recipient often goes on to claim benefits and bring multiple relatives to the country who do not speak English or integrate into British culture. This must end.

The residency requirement for obtaining British citizenship must be tightened so that a foreigner is only eligible to be considered for citizenship after 20 years of continuous residency without claiming benefits, and must be fluent in English, culturally integrated and committed to contributing to the nation.

Ending Illegal Entry

Substantial developments to protecting our borders and coastal waters are needed. More robust checks should be conducted at harbours and airports to prevent illegal immigration, and all means of forced entry to the country by migrants should be made unviable. We will task the Royal Navy with preventing small boats carrying illegal immigrants from entering British waters and towing them back to their point of origin. There must be an end to rewards and incentives which encourage spurious claims of asylum by illegal immigrants who have travelled through several safe countries to claim benefits in the UK. 

Deportation

All foreign nationals who are in the country illegally will be deported, whether they have arrived illegally on a small boat or the back of a lorry or have overstayed a work or study visa. All foreign nationals who have committed a criminal offence will be deported to their country of origin. We will deploy the Army to detain and deport illegal immigrants to their home countries.

Asylum

Asylum should only be granted to genuine refugees who have arrived in the UK without passing through any other safe countries such as France or Belgium, and they should be helped to return to their home countries when they become safe. All immigrants to the UK should be expected to adapt to our culture and way of life while they are here.

Ending exploitation of cheap migrant labour

Illegal migrant workers are often willing to work for less than the minimum wage, but some are duped and forced into enduring appalling slave-like conditions to enrich unscrupulous bosses who break the law. This has led to wage compression with honest hard-working British men and women unable to compete with illegal cheap migrant labour. We will beef up our Border Force to provide them with the resources they need to return illegal immigrants to their home countries. Anyone found to be using illegal cheap foreign labour or forcing others to work in slavery should be imprisoned and have their assets confiscated to pay compensation. 

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