‘If you don’t get them out you’re not going to have a country left’: Donald Trump says UK MUST copy US’s hard line on immigration or face oblivion

US President Donald Trump said Britain must follow America’s hard line on immigration, otherwise “there won’t be a single country left”.

He praised his own immigration policies and claimed he had reduced people entering the US illegally to ‘zero’, adding that the UK should ‘take it’. [migrants] ‘Come back immediately’.

Speaking to GB News, he called on the government to deploy the military to tackle the small boat problem in a rambling interview in which he again threatened to sue the BBC for up to $5 billion.

It comes after the BBC sent a personal apology to the US President on Thursday after it was revealed he had edited two parts of a speech he gave on the day of the Capitol riots in 2021.

The company admitted the clip, which featured in the Panorama documentary and was later removed from iPlayer, misled viewers, but bosses vehemently denied there was any libel case to answer.

Speaking last night, Trump turned his attention to the immigration debate in the UK, saying: ‘When people come into your country and they are bad people, wrong people, it doesn’t work and it doesn’t work.

‘If you don’t take them out, you won’t have a district left.’

Adding that immigration is ‘more important than inflation’ he said: ‘You have to take them [illegal migrants] You must take them back immediately.

Speaking to GB News, he called on the UK government to deploy the military to tackle the small boat problem, just as it has used on the Mexican border (pictured)

‘Remember, two years ago, a year and a half ago, millions of people were flowing through our borders. You know what we’ve had for the last six months? None.’

Although illegal immigration has dropped sharply due to harsh measures introduced by Donald Trump, the data contradicts the claim that it no longer exists.

Trump said the military was responsible for the drop in illegal immigration and told GB News the UK should act “in the same way”.

‘We were very tough at the border, we would take people back immediately and I kept the army as a reserve,’ he said.

‘We do not play games with our army.’

Trump added about Britain: ‘You have an advantage because you actually have a lot of sea. Because the sea is a kind of protection, now they sometimes come by boat, but this is a protection.’

The president has taken a tough line on immigration, deploying ICE agents and the national guard to Democratic-run cities across the country to take down so-called illegals on the streets.

As of last month, nearly 493,000 immigrants had been deported since Trump took office in January, while another 1.6 million had self-deported.

US troops deployed to Mexican border in May amid Trump’s crackdown on immigrants

A group of people try to cross the English Channel in a small boat to enter England

On the first day of his presidency, the Republican leader declared a national emergency on the Mexican border, and the military was deployed there to seal it off from anyone trying to cross it illegally.

Elsewhere in the country, there have been significant ICE raids that have sparked widespread protests in cities like Chicago, where Trump deployed members of the National Guard to suppress them.

With his ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ introduced in July, he introduced a series of new measures that would eliminate access to health insurance and other benefits for many legal immigrants.

It recently banned immigrants from seeking asylum on U.S. soil and capped the total number of refugees annually at 7,500.

His calls for Britain to follow a similar line are unlikely to be heeded by Labor, but the Prime Minister and Home Secretary have vowed to take tougher action.

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood is expected to lay out comprehensive plans and unveil anti-immigration measures in the coming days to bring the UK’s immigration system more in line with Denmark’s harsher system.

He is also understood to be drafting new human rights legislation that would make it easier to deport people crossing the English Channel in small boats.

Trump’s latest comments came in an interview in which he doubled down on plans to sue the BBC over the editing of two parts of his speech on January 6, 2021.

‘I don’t want to get into lawsuits, but I feel I have an obligation to do so. “It was just awful,” he told GB News’ Bev Turner.

‘If you don’t do this, you can’t stop the same thing from happening again to other people.’

He told reporters outside the White House on Friday that he would formally seek reparations anywhere from $1 billion to $5 billion anywhere in the region.

He had previously promised to sue unless he received a full retraction, a humiliating apology and an offer of compensation with an edit of his speech by next Friday for misleading Panorama viewers.

The BBC apologized but said it refused to pay financial compensation.

The company said the inclusion of the speech was an “error of judgement” but rejected claims for compensation.

A BBC spokesman said President Samir Shah had sent a personal letter to the White House to apologize for the edit, and the company’s lawyers had written to the president’s legal team.

The spokesman added: ‘Whilst the BBC sincerely regrets the way the video clip has been edited, we strongly disagree that it provides the basis for a libel claim.’

The arrangement ultimately led to the resignations of Director General Tim Davie and BBC News chief Deborah Turness last Sunday.