It’s not immigration. Its invasion.
At the UN, Trump told European leaders, “It’s time to end the failed experiment of open borders.” He warned that their countries were “going to hell.”
Addressing the 81st session of the UN General Assembly in New York on September 22, President Donald Trump said, “With their ceaseless promotion of mass migration, these globalists are actively destroying the greatest cultures and most extraordinary heritage in history.” He also called out the UN Human Rights Council for criticizing U.S. immigration enforcement.
“They want America to open our borders to gangs and criminals from the world’s most dangerous places,” Trump said in his UN General Assembly address. Departing from his prepared speech text, he added, “They want the worst people to come in from the worst places on Earth, and we don’t do it anymore. We did do it, but we don’t do that anymore.” He said, “There is no human right to illegal immigration, but there is a right to remain a sovereign nation, and we want to remain a sovereign nation, and so should you.”
Criticizing the flood of migrants into Europe and the associated wave of crime, particularly rape, Trump has repeatedly pressed European leaders to tighten their borders. Arriving in Scotland in July 2025, ahead of meetings with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and then-Prime Minister Keir Starmer, he told reporters that migration was a “horrible invasion” and added, “This immigration is killing Europe.”
