Britain's Conservative Party has outlined a £1.6 billion plan to create a dedicated "removals force" modelled on the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, aiming to deport 150,000 illegal migrants annually and slash net migration through sweeping legal overhauls, including quitting the European Convention on Human Rights.

The blueprint, detailed by party leader Kemi Badenoch at Sunday's conference opener, replaces the Home Office's Immigration Enforcement with a beefed-up unit wielding expanded powers like warrantless facial recognition to track undocumented individuals.

Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp called it a "detailed and comprehensive plan to regain border control," with funding sourced from shuttering asylum hotels and curbing system costs.

Badenoch, speaking to the BBC, brushed off queries on deportation destinations as "irrelevant," insisting migrants would return "to where they came from."

The proposals also pledge to repeal the Human Rights Act, exit the Council of Europe anti-trafficking convention, and restrict refugee status to those fleeing direct government persecution—excluding most conflict or discrimination cases.

An immigration tribunal would dissolve, with Home Office decisions carrying limited appeals, and legal aid axed for claimants accused of "coached" stories.

Critics within the party worry the facial recognition push erodes freedoms, while Labour slammed the Tories for past failures: record migration under their watch, 400 new asylum hotels, and £700 million squandered on Rwanda flights that deported just four.

A party spokesman quipped, "They enabled high migration, won't apologise—now trust them?" Reform UK's Nigel Farage, eyeing similar ECHR exit, dismissed the plans as "announcements that fall apart."

As Badenoch pitches "strong borders" amid Reform pressure, the strategy risks legal hurdles like a recent California ruling against Trump's Los Angeles Guard deployment, testing whether the pledges can deliver on deportation goals without stoking division.