There needs to be "political will" in the UK if it is to emulate the USA and drive down illegal migration, a former White House press secretary has claimed.

Speaking to GB News, Sean Spicer told The Late Show Live that it is "common sense" for the UK to "prioritise their borders".

Under the Donald Trump administration, it has been announced that two million people have been deported from America.

Hailing the work of Border Czar Tom Homan and the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Mr Spicer declared they are "making the country safer" by "rounding up criminals".

Sean Spicer has warned that Britain needs 'political will' in order to tackle the migrant crisis

Mr Spicer told GB News: "When someone comes into this country illegally, they're breaking our laws.

"We are a nation of laws, and so when you choose to break those, it doesn't set a very good precedent for why you came to America in the first place.

"But what Tom Homan and those folks are doing is they're targeting criminals.

"And in the process, I've talked to Tom about this, if they see someone who's not here, they're not just letting them go. They're saying, we're going to round up anybody that's with them, that's in the country illegally."

He stated: "That's making the country safer. It's also making sure that we keep drugs out, traffickers out, but also that we maintain a rule of law and that we maintain jobs for Americans that are in this country legally."

Asked by host Bev Turner about the migrant situation in the UK, Spicer said: "You have to make a decision about whether or not you prioritise the borders of your country. Donald Trump says this all the time, it's common sense.

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"It's not right versus left, Republican versus Democrat, conservative versus liberal. The question is, do you think that borders are necessary for your country?"

Highlighting the ongoing crisis of preserving sovereignty, Mr Spicer added: "Because what makes Britain, Britain and France, France and Spain, Spain is a border, and what makes us unique from Mexico or Canada is a border, a northern border and a southern border.

"As soon as you don't acknowledge those borders anymore and people can come in at will, then you're not a country.

"That's what Donald Trump prioritised and put it very clearly in terms of the senior folks, and all the way down to the agents on the ground, saying, ‘you will now protect our country’.

"You will make sure that people who are in the country legally are here, that if they're not here, that they're deported."

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Criticising the efforts of former President Joe Biden and the surge in illegal migration into the US, Mr Spicer accused him of holding up a "big magnet" to welcome illegal migrants into their country.

He said: "And there's two things, it's not just the policy, but it's the message.

"What Joe Biden did was he sent a big magnet up and said, if you come to America illegally, we'll then reward you. We'll give you a hotel room, a gift card, a phone. So why wouldn't you come?

"It made sense for people to come legally. What Donald Trump has done is not just change those policies, but made it very clear that if you come, we will send you back and we'll send you back quickly."