Written by Noah Carl.
Since returning to office, President Trump has been outspoken in his criticism of mass migration into Europe. Speaking in Scotland last July, he referred to a “horrible invasion” and said that “immigration is killing Europe”. In a UN speech a few months later, he proclaimed, “I love Europe and I hate to see it being devastated by immigration”. Then in December he told Politico, “What they’re doing with immigration is a disaster”, adding that some European states “will not be viable countries any longer”.
Vice President Vance has echoed the same talking points. Speaking at the Munich Security Conference, he stated, “Of all the pressing challenges that the nations represented here face, I believe there is nothing more urgent than mass migration”. In a follow-up interview, he noted that “if you have another few million immigrants come in from countries that are totally culturally incompatible” then “Germany will have killed itself”. And in a CPAC speech, he said that western leaders have sent “millions and millions of unvetted foreign migrants into their countries”, describing this as “the greatest threat”.
In light of such rhetoric, you might assume the administration would be doing everything possible to avoid making Europe’s immigration problems any worse.1 Apparently not.