Discussing the impact of migration on the UK’s national security is “absolutely legitimate” after riots that followed a knife attack in Belfast, the Government’s independent reviewer of terrorism legislation has said.
The attack was allegedly carried out by a 30-year-old Sudanese man who entered the UK in 2023 and was given refugee status.
Jonathan Hall KC told the BBC: “If you look at state threats and people who have been willing to act as proxies or carry out attacks on behalf of Iran… I’m interested in the question of whether or not foreign nationality, particularly recent migrants, is becoming more relevant to the overall national security picture.”
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Hall said there is a “question” of whether “certain countries are more likely either to commit very serious offences, or particular offences, or to get involved with state threat activity”.
