The United Kingdom’s government-appointed terrorism watchdog is openly wondering whether President Donald Trump had a point on immigration, as the country grapples with the fallout of a migrant’s attempted beheading of a citizen in Belfast.Jonathan Hall, the independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, acknowledged on Wednesday that recent trends of violence among immigrants “does raise the question” whether Trump was correct about the “destabilization of Europe” through mass immigration, even if one “may not agree with the language” used by the president.“[Donald Trump] said, in perhaps rather overblown rhetoric, that there’s this destabilization of Europe, and he put an awful lot of that down to migration,” Hall said. “If [people from] certain countries are more likely either to commit very serious offenses or particular offenses, or to get involved with state threat activity, do we need to start thinking about migration now — not simply in terms of the economy and housing, but also in terms of national security?”
Vehicles set on fire by protesters burn on Lendrick Street in east Belfast, Northern Ireland, on Tuesday, June 9, 2026, after the arrest of a Sudanese man accused of stabbing a man in the northern part of the city. (PA via AP)
