Trump Warns PM Starmer During UK Trip: “Taking A Strong Stand On Immigration Is Imperative”
President Trump offered this advice to the U.K. on immigration during a meeting with Prime Minister Starmer in Scotland:
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: immigration is a big factor. And I think, frankly, if they’re coming from other countries and you don’t know who they are-and are they coming from prisons? We have them, where they came in from prisons. We’re moving them all out. We had a border last June-just last month-we had zero people come into the country. Zero. Other than coming through legal means. If you’re stopping immigration and stopping the wrong people, I give my-hats are off to you. You’re not doing a good thing-you’re doing a fantastic thing. So I know nothing about the boats. But if the boats are loaded up with bad people-and they usually are-because you know, other countries don’t send their best. They send people that they don’t want. And they’re not stupid people. They send the people that they don’t want. And I’ve heard that you’ve taken a much stronger stance on stopping them coming. PRIME MINISTER KEIR STARMER: We just signed an agreement to return them. And we’ve returned 35,000, in fact, in the first year of this government-of people who shouldn’t be in this country. So we’re very pleased that we’re getting on with returning people who don’t have the right to be here. TRUMP: That’s great. As somebody that loves this-I love this country. My mother was born in-as you know-my mother was born in Scotland. And it’s an incredible place. A beautiful place. And if that be the case, I congratulate you. That’s exactly right, because you know, Europe is a much different place than it was just five years ago-ten years ago. And they’ve got to get their act together. If they don’t, you’re not going to have Europe anymore as you know it. You can’t do that. This is a magnificent part of the world, and you cannot ruin it. You cannot let people come in here illegally. And what happens is-they’ll be murderers, they’ll be drug dealers, there’ll be all sorts of things that other countries don’t want. And they send them to you. And they send them to us. And you’ve got to stop them. And I hear that you’ve taken a very strong stand on immigration. And taking a strong stand on immigration is imperative.
