She said: “With rights comes responsibilities so my proposal is that we explore requiring asylum seekers – starting with male migrants – to wear an electronic tag of some form.”

The intervention comes as the Home Office is expected to move up to 600 migrants to an army camp in the county in the new year.

Ms Bourne said: “If migrants refused to wear a tag it would be an indication that they are intending to abscond or are involved in unlawful activity.”

She added that she was aware of high levels of anxiety from residents in Crowborough, Sussex, which is near the army camp where migrants will soon be housed. Protesters have marched through the town objecting to the plan.

Electronic tagging would give asylum seekers “greater freedom to travel further from migrant holding centres and could be the first step in making it more feasible to get temporary jobs”, she said.

Ms Bourne stressed that “British people have a justly proud record of welcoming those fleeing persecution” but added that Britons are “getting frustrated and angry that male economic migrants are arriving by the boatload, putting pressure on local services and costing taxpayers billions every year.”

Ms Bourne, who was recently selected as the Conservative mayoral candidate for Sussex, said that she had “listened to the fears of people with young children nearby” and seen the “dismay of couples buying their home right next to the site wondering if they will ever be able to sell”.

She added: “I’ve also talked to young women who are well aware of the sexual assaults committed across the UK by male migrants from starkly different cultures to our own.”

The Home Office spokesperson said: “We are furious at the level of illegal migrants and asylum hotels in this country”.

They added: “This government will close every asylum hotel, and we are working to move asylum seekers into more suitable accommodation such as military bases, to ease pressure on communities across the country.”

Current law requires electronic monitoring to be applied to people facing deportation, unless human rights laws would prevent it, or the tagging was considered impractical.

Ms Bourne has also asked the Government for additional funding to police the camp, as well as seeking assurances from the Sussex Chief Constable that a plan is in place, and resources allocated, to deal with potential criminal behaviour, and public order issues, at the site.

She said: “I have already submitted a bid for several million pounds of extra Government funding to be ready to deal with any issues around the Crowborough camp without denuding other communities of the policing they already pay for and deserve.”

The Government has made commitments to phase out the use of hotels over the next four years, in what the Home Office calls “sweeping changes” to the asylum system. Moving asylum seekers into accommodation, such as military bases, is intended to ease pressure on communities across the country, the Home Office says.