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‘Immigration is killing Europe’
Trump’s warning ten years after Merkel opened the floodgates
Trump talked of a ‘horrible invasion’ ‘killing Europe’. ‘You better get your act together, or you’re not going to have Europe anymore,’ he said. His comment to Starmer, ‘I hear you’ve taken a very strong stand on immigration’ can be taken as empty fluff, especially as he also made clear that he admires ‘some leaders’ in Europe who have stopped illegal immigration – clearly a reference to Hungary’s Viktor Orbán, bête noire of Europe’s left-liberal establishment, including Starmer.
Trump’s stark warning came near the tenth anniversary of former German chancellor Angela Merkel’s invitation to the Third World to relocate to Europe, resulting in an influx of 1.5 million and a further 6 million since.
Europe has not yet corrected course. In Britain’s case, since Tony Blair’s period in office, the UK’s population has risen from 60 million to almost 70 million as a result of mass immigration, with an average of close to 500,000 net new arrivals per annum over the last eight years. The numbers include the 176,000 who have crossed the Channel since 2018, many of whom are among the estimated one million illegal immigrants in Britain.
The influx has produced dramatic changes: indigenous Britons are now a minority in London, Birmingham and other urban areas. And up to three million of the arrivals since 2000 have been Muslim, with the consequence that they increasingly determine the fate of traditional Labour seats. Their wishes also increasingly influence Britain’s foreign, immigration and policing policies and have increased pressure for the erosion of free speech through ‘Islamophobia’ restrictions.
Labour attacked the Tories for losing control of borders and has pledged to reduce legal immigration and to stop the boats by ‘smashing the gangs’. But its heart isn’t in it. Although Britain has paid France £710 million to stop the boats, the people smugglers continue to operate and advertise openly. The pull factors are unprecedentedly strong – often luxurious hotel accommodation, free mobile phones, allowances, gold-plated access to the NHS, no detention and a good chance of working in the black economy. Plus helpful lawyers and judges who use Britain’s membership of the European Convention on Human Rights to ensure there is little chance of illegal immigrants ever having to leave, however weak their asylum claims. This year, which has already seen a record 25,000 cross-Channel arrivals, will probably see an all-time record. Starmer boasts he’s deported 35,000 people, but is more shy about admitting that only a pitifully small number are boat arrivals.
At the latest count there were 33,000 asylum seekers in 218 hotels – costing £5.7 million a day. The hotels are usually taken over without notice to local authorities, radically changing the character of small communities overnight. The arrivals have included terrorists and many criminals. Recently, eleven girls were sexually assaulted, raped or attacked by asylum seekers in 12 days. And in just three hotels in Bournemouth, 116 charges have been brought against 51 asylum seekers.
Middle England is steadily stirring to anger and protest. A Yougov poll has shown 45 per cent of Britons want zero net immigration combined with ‘large numbers’ of deportations, more than those opposed to such measures.
Mark Higgie
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