Trump Urges European Countries to Toughen Their Immigration Policies

PM Keir Starmer (L) and U.S. President Donald Trump (R), July 28, 2025. X/ @Tracie_Murray_


July 28, 2025 Hour: 9:26 am

‘This is a magnificent part of the world, and it can’t be ruined,” the U.S. president said.

On Monday, U.S. President Donald Trump urged European countries to tighten their anti-immigration policies to prevent what he described as damage to their societies and cultures.

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“They’ve got to get tough. If they don’t, Europe will no longer be what it is — and that can’t happen. This is a magnificent part of the world, and it can’t be ruined,” Trump said from the Turnberry golf resort in Scotland, where he met with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer.

“You can’t let people come in illegally, because there will be murderers, drug traffickers and all kinds of things that other countries don’t want,” he added.

“They send them to you, and they send them to us. You have to stop them,” the U.S. president said, adding that Europe “is a very different place from what it was five or ten years ago.”

Trump praised the UK’s “firm stance on immigration,” referring to a recently signed return agreement with France aimed at migrants crossing the English Channel in small boats. Starmer had to explain the Franco-British strategy to the U.S. president, who acknowledged that he was unaware of the details.

“I don’t know anything about the boats, but if the boats are full of bad people — and usually they are — because other countries don’t send their best. They send the people they don’t want. They’re not stupid — they send the people they don’t want. If they’re stopping immigration and the wrong people, I tip my hat to them,” Trump said.

Upon his arrival in Scotland last Friday, Trump said illegal immigration was “an invasion that is killing Europe” and boasted that last month, not a single person entered the United States illegally.

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Source: EFE