Almost 60,000 foreign criminals and illegal migrants have been removed or deported from Britain in the last 19 months, according to the Home Office.
Footage from a deportation flight was today released by the Government, as ministers face mounting pressure over immigration.
It shows nearly 50 foreign offenders, who were sentenced to a total of almost 70 years in jail, as well as failed asylum seekers, being escorted onto a plane.
Since the last general election, some 43,000 people have left voluntarily after being told they were in the UK illegally, while more than 15,000 have been removed - a 45% increase on the 19 months prior, the Home Office said.
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood added that she would "scale up" the number of deportations even further.
However, Sir Keir Starmer’s Government is on track to claim Britain’s worst ever small boats record as figures show 65,703 migrants have arrived across the Channel since he became Prime Minister.
During Boris Johnson’s more than three-year tenure as PM, 65,811 migrants made the perilous journey from France.
Earlier this week, Ms Mahmood said there is no guarantee that the number of small boat crossings will fall by this time next year.
The Home Office said it will bring in legislation to stop illegal immigrants "gaming the system" by using the European Convention on Human Rights to appeal against their removal.
The UK is among several countries grappling with migration problems which are pushing for changes in the way the treaty is interpreted, notably in its Article 3 protection against inhuman or degrading treatment and the Article 8 right to a family life.
Both articles have been used to prevent people with no right to be in the UK being sent back to their home countries.
Illegal migrants will also be restricted to a single route of appeal, the Home Office said.
Ms Mahmood added: "I vowed to scale up removals of illegal migrants - and we have.
"However, we must go further to remove those that have no right to be in our country.
"I will do whatever it takes to restore order and control."
The Government has also pledged to end the use of hotels to house asylum seekers by the end of this Parliament by opting for more basic accommodation like military sites instead.
Fewer than 200 asylum accommodation hotels remain in use, the Government said, compared with a peak of 400 under the previous government.
