Vice President J.D. Vance gave a similarly controversial speech at the Munich Security Conference in February 2025, which angered European leaders.
“Of all the pressing challenges that the nations represented here face, I believe there is nothing more urgent than mass migration,” he said.
Vance noted in his speech a car-ramming attack carried out by an Afghan asylum seeker in Germany the day before his speech.
“How many times must we suffer these appalling setbacks before we change course and take our shared civilization in a new direction?” he asked.
Vance used the same rhetoric again this week as he publicly blamed the United Kingdom’s immigration policy for the death of 18-year-old British student Henry Nowak, who was fatally stabbed last year in Southampton. He argued in a post on X that Nowak’s death was due to the country’s “mass invasion of migrants”.
“Each time a life like his is lost, the proper response—the only response—is righteous anger,” he said.
