Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth drew attention during a D-Day anniversary ceremony in France after comparing modern migration into Europe to an "invasion" and urging European governments to take stronger action on border security.
Hegseth Targets Europe's Migration Policies On Saturday, speaking 82 years after Allied forces landed on the beaches of Normandy in 1944, Hegseth warned that Europe now faces "different dangerous ideologies" arriving by sea.
"Sadly, today, different European beaches are stormed by different, dangerous ideologies. which is in Spain, in Italy, in Greece and Bulgaria, boats and men arrive.
When will European capitals do something about that invasion?" he said.
He added that some European nations had grown too "comfortable" since World War II and risk forgetting that "freedom is not free." "The men who fought and died here restored freedom to Europe," Hegseth said.
