CAMPAIGNERS slammed Reform UK’s attempts to spread division with their “Trump-style ICE plan” for mass deportations as they pledged to put detention centres in Green-voting constituencies.

Anti-racism activists hit back today at promises from Reform’s Zia Yusuf saying that new deportation centres would not be built in areas which had elected MPs or councillors from the far-right party.

Reform’s home affairs spokesperson said that if elected, it would “prioritise Green constituencies and Green-controlled councils to locate these detention centres.”

He said this was the “fairest approach,” given the Green Party “advocates for open borders and for an infinite number of undocumented men to come here.”

People held in detention would “not be allowed to leave the sites,” Mr Yusuf told The Daily Telegraph.

Stand up to Racism national organiser Michael Bradley told the Morning Star that Reform’s deportation plans are “straight out of Donald Trump’s playbook.”

“[Reform UK leader Nigel] Farage is talking about mass arrests, about taking people off the streets in tens of thousands. What he is calling for is for ICE to come to Britain,” he said.

“Anyone who is voting for Reform, should be clear that what they are voting for is the British Donald Trump.

“This is the kind of bullying and stunt-driven behaviour you would expect from Farage. He is sending a signal to voters, against anyone that wants to vote for progressive policies on migration.

“Instead of condemning the kind of violence like we have seen over the past two years at refugee accommodations around the country, Farage is trying to win votes from it.

“This is all about division. That’s the message that Farage is telling us.”

He added: “It’s no different than what is happening with politicians attacking Palestine marches. They are capitalising on the division. Meanwhile they are allowing Tommy Robinson’s violent march to go ahead in London.”

Stand Up To Racism co-convener Weyman Bennett agreed, saying the “Trump-style rhetoric from Farage reveals what you’ll get if you vote Reform UK.”

Stand up to Racism called on members of the public to join a counter-protest opposing the far-right Tommy Robinson-organised protest in London on Saturday May 16.

Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI) advocacy director Seema Syeda told the Morning Star that Mr Yusuf’s statements revealed that Reform was worried about the Green Party’s recent rise in the polls.

“Reform and the Establishment are running scared of the Green surge,” she explained.

“Zack Polanski said he wants ‘no borders’ and the Greens went on to win the Gorton and Denton by-election, a Reform council ward in Kent and are now polling double digits and giving established parties a run for their money.

“Maybe the British public aren’t obsessed with scapegoating migrants after all?”

Labour chair MP Anna Turley said the proposals reveal Reform’s “contempt for all voters — including their own.

“Threatening to punish places where people don’t vote your way is a betrayal of basic democratic principles. Nigel Farage has sunk to a new low: he is clearly more interested in stoking division and anger than in serving the whole country.

“Nigel Farage doesn’t care about fixing the system — he just wants to drive a toxic wedge between our communities.”

After Mr Yusuf’s announcement that Green voters will “get what they vote for,” the Scottish branch of the far-right party clarified its position on the matter.

Polls have suggested the party could return MSPs in all seven regions after Thursday’s election.

Reform councillor Thomas Kerr clarified that if Nigel Farage becomes the prime minister, detention centres would be built in constituencies that elect Green MSPs, and those which vote for Reform would be exempted.

First Minister John Swinney said: “I simply think this is an illustration of the dangerous nature of Reform’s politics.

“If there was an illustration of an attempt to divide communities, that policy announcement epitomises it.

“It is the route to division, to disorder and it divides our communities and I will have none of it.”