October 7, 2025

The Minister rejects Trump’s call to soldiers to fight illegal migration

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Jennifer McKiernanPolitical journalist

Getty Images Donald Trump and Sir Keir Starmer look in the backdrop of American and British flags at the ladies' press conferenceGetty images

The British army focuses on the defense of the nation rather than to prevent asylum seekers from crossing the channel, said a minister of the cabinet.

US President Donald Trump suggested that military intervention could be used to cope with illegal migration in the United Kingdom during his state visit this week.

But the Secretary of Commerce Peter Kyle rejected this call, telling the BBC Breakfast that the British border force has a specific responsibility for the British border police.

Hundreds of migrants tried to cross the chain earlier during the day, while the second expulsion of the agreement “One in, one out” of the government took place.

But Trump suggested that the military force was a better means of deterrence than the labor government’s approach to diplomatic negotiations containing returns and hardening judicial directives.

Speaking alongside Sir Keir Starmer at a press conference at the Country Residences Country Checkers of the Prime Minister, Trump suggested that such a force was necessary because an illegal migration “destroys the countries of the interior”.

He said, “You have people who come and I told the Prime Minister that I would stop him, and it doesn’t matter that you call the army, no matter what you use.”

Asked about the statements of the American president, Kyle told BBC Breakfast: “Well, what he suggested is that the soldiers are used, but we have the British border force which is now established and has been strengthened and strengthened and has new powers under this government.

“The navy actually has a working relationship with the British border force, and the navy can be called if necessary, we therefore have the functional relationship we need between our soldiers and the maintenance of our borders in security.

“But what we really need for the moment is that our soldier has focused on all these really key problems in the world, directly linked to our national defense.”

Trump has published a series of decrees implementing a large prohibition of asylum for migrants entering the southern border and has sent troops to help border safety efforts.

The arrests of migrants by the American border patrol have decreased since Trump took office.

The Conservatives and the reform of the United Kingdom call for more strict actions on migration, with a reform saying that this would prohibit anyone who comes to the United Kingdom on small boats to claim asylum.

None of the parties proposed to use the military force, although Nigel Farage said that a government of reform would trample the small boats in France “as a last resort”.

The video shows a group of migrants aboard a boat near the Gravelines in France

The new interior secretary, Shabana Mahmood, promised to fight what she called “vexatious and last -minute affirmations” and Kyle described it as “trying to make a bit” to ensure that the pilot project of a single diagram for migrant returns was a success.

“We make sure that we get as many people as the right to be returned here as quickly as possible,” he said, adding that there are “many cases” via the court.

When asked if there was a target figure for the number of yields, Kyle said: “Our goal is to ensure that all those who come on our shore and have no right to stay is deleted from the country, it is our target.

“We want to get a full grip on the system, we want to make sure that people see a functional system that offers so quickly, effectively and quickly that people do not come here in the first place, this is the deterrent we need.”

About 100 men who arrived in the United Kingdom by Petit Bateau are currently in immigration elimination centers near Heathrow and can be removed from its functions in France as part of the program.

The Interior Ministry said that more expulsion flights were scheduled for next week and that a government call has been launched, aimed at limiting the time that migrants must provide evidence to challenge their withdrawal.

More than 5,500 migrants have reached the United Kingdom since the entry into force of the program in early August, but the government hopes that continuous return flights will serve as a deterrence.

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