Europe in the Balance?

Europe faces a breaking point as illegal migration, welfare strain, energy crises, and defense demands collide with shrinking populations and stagnant economies.

Almost weekly in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, France, and Germany, a sensational assault committed by an illegal migrant—often enjoying some sort of state support or with prior arrests for the same crime—surfaces.

Until recently, European politicians and the media sought to either ignore such news or accuse those who clamored for tighter borders, more police protection, and stiffer penalties of being “racists” or “xenophobes.”

Until recently, that is.

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Council offers support to staff who feel ‘unsettled’ by St George’s flags as it may ‘evoke feelings of discomfort’

A council has offered support to staff who feel ‘unsettled’ by St George’s flags as it may ‘evoke feelings of discomfort and be associated with anti-immigration rhetoric’.

Essex county council bosses sent out an email to workers addressing the increasing number of England flags being raised across the country as part of an online campaign called Operation Raise the Colours.

The email encouraged staff to ‘reach out’ to their managers, adding: ‘We stand firmly against all forms of racism and discrimination, and we are committed to fostering a safe, inclusive, and respectful environment for everyone.’

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The Bell Hotel ruling will haunt Labour

I’m starting to think Yvette Cooper is a Reform UK plant. What else could explain the debacle that is the Court of Appeal case about the Bell Hotel in Epping?

Last week, a High Court judge granted a temporary injunction, barring the Bell’s use for housing asylum seekers, citing a breach of planning law and the intolerable fear of crime and unrest in the area.

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The West’s Migrant Crime Crisis: When Silence Is Complicity

There is no shortage of stories about heroic bystanders intervening to stop assaults and attacks committed by migrants in Europe.

The most well-known incident occurred on a Paris-bound train in 2015, when three American tourists thwarted a mass terrorist attack by a Moroccan national armed with a Kalashnikov; one of them was shot in the process. Then there was the “backpack hero,” who chased a Syrian refugee out of a park in France after he stabbed four kids and two adults in 2023. Moving on to this year, in July, passengers overpowered another Syrian national on a train in southern Germany after he injured four people with a hammer.

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14,000 US-bound people have returned south since Trump border crackdown, UN finds

More than 14,000 people, mainly Venezuelans, who hoped to reach the US have reversed course and turned south since the start of Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown, according to a report by the governments of Colombia, Panama and Costa Rica.

The phenomenon, known as “reverse flow” migration, is largely made up of Venezuelans who fled the country’s long-running economic, social and political crises only to encounter US immigration policy no longer open to asylum seekers.

They say it like it’s a bad thing!

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UK Court rules against children’s safety! So called Asylum seekers to remain at Epping hotel after appeal win

A temporary injunction that blocked asylum seekers being housed at an Essex hotel has been overturned at the Court of Appeal.

Lawyers for The Bell Hotel in Epping and the government challenged a High Court ruling that would have forced 138 asylum seekers to leave the site by 12 September.

Overturning the injunction, Lord Justice Bean said the High Court ruling was “seriously flawed in principle”.

Epping Forest District Council, which obtained the initial injunction, said “the battle was not over”.

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Riots erupt in Swiss city after migrant teen is killed in scooter crash while fleeing police

Dramatic riots have erupted in a Swiss city after a migrant teen was killed in a scooter crash while fleeing the police.

Riot cops clashed with protesters who hurled Molotov cocktails in Lausanne as officials desperately tried to put a lid on escalating violence.

The unrest comes with the Olympic capital’s police in the spotlight after four officers were suspended Monday following the unearthing of racist, sexist and discriminatory messages in private WhatsApp groups.

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The Human Cost of Open Borders

Europe’s open-borders catastrophe has claimed another casualty. Last weekend, an American tourist was stabbed in the face by a man suspected to be a Syrian migrant in Dresden. John Rudat, a 21-year-old newly qualified paramedic and part-time model, was brutally assaulted when he stepped in to protect two women who were being harassed on a tram. Rudat got into a heated argument with the two male passengers, who first beat him and then later returned to attack him with a knife.

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African teen rapes woman in front of Eiffel Tower

Woman, 32, is dragged into bushes and raped in front of the Eiffel Tower

A teenager has been arrested after a woman was dragged into the bushes and raped in front of the Eiffel Tower.

The suspect, a Libyan 17-year-old, was taken into custody shortly after the horrific attack near the Champ-de-Mars in the early hours of Tuesday morning.

According to initial evidence gathered by police officers at the scene, it was 2.40am when a man forcibly dragged the victim, a Ukrainian woman, 32, behind a bush.

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Women and children face deportation under Reform migrant plan

Women and children would be deported under Reform UK’s plans to remove 600,000 illegal migrants within five years, Nigel Farage has said.

Emergency powers would be passed to stop all small boat arrivals within days of a Reform-led government coming to power, he said, and there would be a “carrot and stick approach” to encourage people to leave, followed by forcible detentions and removals.

Farage raised the prospect that children born in the UK to parents who arrived illegally could also be deported, but added such a move would be “complex”.


I’ll believe it when I see it.

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UK: Sex crimes by foreign nationals surge

The number of sexual offence convictions of foreign nationals has increased by 62 per cent in four years, according to new data revealing the scale of migrant crime.

Foreign nationals accounted for one in seven (14.1 per cent) of sexual offence convictions last year, including rapes, according to the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) data, drawn from the Police National Computer.

The rate of increase between 2021 and 2024 is higher than for British nationals, whose sexual offence convictions rose by 39.3 per cent over the same period, according to the figures, obtained under freedom of information laws.

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Hey Mike Allen: ‘New’ Naturalization Requirement of Good Moral Character Began In 1790!

Axios co-founder Mike Allen appeared on Monday’s Morning Joe to tout the outlet’s article, “Trump’s identity project,” which begins [emphasis added]:

“Through immigration crackdowns and cultural purges, President Trump is wielding government power to enforce a more rigid, exclusionary definition of what it means to be American.”

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Epping Hotel Man told girls he wanted to ‘have a baby’, court hears

A man told two 14-year-old girls eating pizza in a town centre that he “wanted to have a baby with them” and tried to kiss them, a court heard.

Hadush Kebatu, from Ethiopia, allegedly propositioned the teenagers “without any encouragement” after accepting an offer of food from them in Epping, Essex, on 7 July.

Allegations of the incident led to a wave of anti-immigration protests and counter-demonstrations outside The Bell Hotel, where Mr Kebatu is staying as an asylum seeker.

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Immigrant Population in U.S. Drops for the First Time in Decades

For the first time in decades, more immigrants are leaving the United States than arriving, a new study finds, an early indication that President Trump’s hard-line immigration agenda is leading people to depart — whether through deportation or by choice.

An analysis of new census data released on Thursday by the nonpartisan Pew Research Center found that between January and June, the foreign-born population in the United States — both lawful and unlawful residents — declined by nearly 1.5 million. In June, the country was home to 51.9 million immigrants, down from 53.3 million six months earlier.

That’s bad for the folks who love cheap foreign labour.

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Florida Cops Turn Traffic Stops Into Deportations

LAKE WORTH, Fla.—Master Sgt. Tony Kingery of the Florida Highway Patrol was driving through a commercial district one recent morning looking for immigrants in the U.S. illegally when he spotted a white van missing its front bumper. He tailed the vehicle, flashed his lights and pulled it over.

Kingery told the driver about the bumper and a broken taillight and asked for his driver’s license. The driver, who was Hispanic, didn’t speak English. He handed over a Guatemalan consular identification card.

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