Acting as if he was President of the world, Donald Trump marked his latest arrival in Britain by delivering a lecture to Europe on immigration.
He proclaimed: ‘You better get your act together or you’re not going to have Europe any more. You got to get your act together… you got to stop this horrible invasion that’s happening to Europe.’
He also made a tremendous claim that ‘last month we had nobody entering our country. Nobody. Shut it down’.
We will wait for the research before accepting that assertion. But there is no doubt that Mr Trump has, by decisive action, significantly reduced illegal arrivals in the United States.
No doubt it helps to have weak, compliant neighbours. And this policy has followed more than 30 years during which America has been transformed by colossal mass migration, legal and illegal.
