President Donald Trump was right to suggest that there is a national security risk posed by open borders, the British government’s top terrorism expert has belatedly admitted in the wake of yet another gruesome, alleged migrant-versus-native outrage that triggered riots. Senior lawyer Jonathan Hall, who has been the Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation since 2019 and is the Independent Reviewer of State Threats Legislation under the National Security Act 2023, has demonstrated his remarkable perspicacity by noting that mass migration carries a security risk and a potential threat to “the health of the nation”.
Responding to the alleged “attempted beheading” of a man in Belfast on Monday night, the arrest of a Sudanese asylum seeker suspect by police, and the protests-cum-riots that have followed, watchdog boss Hall said that in the past the British government’s idea of security threats were generally focussed on home-grown terror, but that the “extraordinarily destabilising” influence of migrant crime should force a rethink.
