A Sudanese asylum seeker was arrested on June 9, 2026, for an attempted beheading. Video showed the attacker straddling the victim, repeatedly stabbing him in the head before drawing the knife across his neck, as bystanders screamed, “He’s trying to cut his head off.”
Protests later spread to Southampton, England, where demonstrators gathered outside a hotel housing asylum seekers carrying signs reading, “Illegal Migration Is Destroying Our Civilisation.” Democratic Unionist Party leader Gavin Robinson called on authorities to curb “uncontrolled immigration.”
Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch said she was “absolutely horrified” by the attack and questioned whether the suspect “should not have been in our country.” The unrest is part of a rising trend of Europeans standing up to defend their country. HOPE not hate tracked at least 251 anti-migrant protest events across 77 UK locations between June and December 2025 alone, a wave that has continued into 2026.
Across the UK, conservatives are angry over their government’s handling of asylum seekers, as ministers press ahead with plans to move thousands of migrants out of hotels and into flats, bedsits, and houses in residential neighborhoods across the country, even as Channel crossings by small boat continue.
More than 68,700 asylum seekers are already living in dispersal accommodation across Britain, according to House of Commons Library data published in May 2026. A further 10,000 are expected to move into residential properties across London, the South East, and Wales in the coming weeks, with around 2,500 entering new properties imminently.
The government has framed the shift as a cost-saving measure. Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has pledged to end the use of migrant hotels before the next election, arguing that dispersal housing is markedly cheaper, with hotels costing roughly six times more than other forms of asylum accommodation.
The policy displaces British residents from scarce housing stock to make room for new arrivals, many of whom entered the country illegally. Around 75% of those arriving by small boat are adult men, while only 12% are adult women and 13% are children. More than half of small-boat arrivals in the year to May 2026 came from just five nationalities: Eritrean, Afghan, Iranian, Sudanese, and Somali, totaling around 36,000 arrivals.
The influx of migrants increases the tax burden on public services and adds to housing demand, which drives up rents and property prices for everyone. At the same time, the large number of men arriving from these specific countries helps explain why European citizens are also dealing with a spike in crime caused by immigrants and illegals.
During a 2024 campaign rally, then-candidate Donald Trump told supporters, “We’ve seen what happened when Europe opened their doors to jihad. Look at Paris, look at London, they’re no longer recognizable.” He continued, “I’m gonna get myself into a lot of trouble with the folks in Paris and the folks in London, but you know what, that’s the fact. They are no longer recognizable, and we can’t let that happen to our country. We have incredible culture, tradition, nothing wrong with their culture, their tradition, we can’t let that happen here, and I’ll never let it happen to the United States of America.”
Slovak politician Milan Mazurek supports President Trump and advocates for closed borders and deportation policies in Europe. Addressing the European Union, Mazurek criticized Spain for not only granting amnesty but also citizenship to 500,000 illegal aliens and migrants. He also pointed to rising crime across Europe, which in some countries is 60–80% attributable to migrants.
He said ” In France, they throw grenades into hair salons in broad daylight. In Germany, not a single day goes by without someone being murdered with a knife. In Sweden, for example, you have a bomb attack every other day. I can continue, but you just don’t care.” He could just as easily have been speaking about the American left when, discussing rising crime, he said, “Those are not real problems for the European left-wing politicians.”
He continued, criticizing EU lawmakers for focusing on U.S. immigration policy while ignoring conditions at home: “No, you are going to solve the situation in Minnesota.”
EU lawmakers and heads of state have invested much of their time in condemning Donald Trump’s deportation policies while migrants are destroying parts of Europe.
Mazurek said, “You are seriously discussing here the rule of law in the United States and criticizing the American government for deporting illegal aliens, for deporting criminals out of their territory, at the same time when Western European cities are gradually turning into war zones. We should do exactly the same. We should deport them from Europe and not legalize their stay.”
In the United States, by contrast, President Trump signed the Secure America Act into law on June 10, 2026, providing the Department of Homeland Security, Customs and Border Protection, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement with $69.5 billion in funding through fiscal year 2029. The bill passed the House by a narrow 214-212 vote a day before the signing. The administration has stated a goal of deporting approximately 1 million illegals per year going forward. And European leaders hate him for it.
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