President Trump just delivered a blunt warning to Britain’s new prime minister, Andy Burnham: illegal immigration is “killing your country,” and he can’t keep ignoring it.
The president’s comments came just hours after more than 500 people crossed the English Channel from France in rubber dinghies — a single-day surge that underscores the crisis Trump zeroed in on.
“Migrants from Africa, South America, and Asia are invading Europe, and the UK is a prime suspect.”
Trump’s assessment is backed by hard numbers. Since 2018, over 200,000 illegal immigrants have floated across the 21-mile-wide Channel in inflatable boats — nearly three times the entire trained strength of the British Army, which stands at roughly 70,000 soldiers.
Britain removed barely four in every hundred arrivals.
The English Channel once kept out the Spanish Armada, Napoleon, and Hitler. Now young men in dinghies cross it before breakfast — and Britain’s governing class won’t stop them.
The reason? Britain remains bound to the European Convention on Human Rights, a treaty interpreted by judges in Strasbourg, France. A domestic Human Rights Act lets taxpayer-funded lawyers litigate nearly every deportation, usually claiming removal would violate a migrant’s “right to family life.”
It’s as if every ICE removal could be appealed to a foreign court, with the ACLU on retainer at public expense.
The arrivals aren’t all future engineers. This week a Manchester court sentenced Both Douk Deng, a South Sudanese man who had been refused asylum three times. He turned up at an elementary school carrying a hammer, a hatchet, a seven-inch knife, and half a liter of petrol.
His defense lawyer told the court Deng wanted to “create a scene for attention.”
He’ll serve about a year — and then in all likelihood remain in Britain anyway. Even the sentencing judge complained that the Home Office “should be doing something rather than nothing.”
Ordinary Britons have lost faith in the state’s ability to protect them. In Crowborough, a quiet Sussex town of 20,000, the government deposited 350 single adult male asylum seekers into a former army camp.
Residents formed an 81-strong volunteer patrol that walks the streets three times a day so women feel safe coming home.
The welfare tab is crushing. Households containing foreign nationals now draw nearly £1 billion (around $1.3 billion) a month in welfare payments, with roughly 1.5 million migrants claiming Britain’s main out-of-work benefit.
After Brexit, Boris Johnson’s government loosened visa rules. Net migration hit 906,000 in a single year — more than the population of San Francisco, into a country smaller than Oregon.
The crisis is tearing Europe apart. Poland has been prosecuting — and then acquitting — soldiers who fired warning shots at migrants prying apart its border fence with a car jack. Those migrants were flown in and pushed forward by Belarus and Russia as a deliberate weapon against NATO.
One Polish soldier has been stabbed on that frontier.
The rise of the AfD in Germany and Marine Le Pen in France is fueled by the same concerns Trump voiced to Burnham.
“Donald Trump is right to say that this invasion must be stopped before it kills Europe.”
Britain’s 21-mile moat is useless when the drawbridge stays down. Trump just told the prime minister: it’s time to raise it.
Mr Both Douk Deng (pictured, right) broke into Britain illegally & was given housing.
He was caught trying to break into a primary school, armed with a hammer, a hatchet, a knife, and a can of petrol.
He doesn’t speak English & left a wife & child in Sudan.
We must be mad. pic.twitter.com/I2WupyCMDX
— James Price (@jamespriceglos) July 29, 2026
