JD Vance Blames UK Student Murder on ‘Mass Invasion of Migrants’

U.S. ​Vice President JD Vance on Friday waded into a British dispute that has erupted over the murder of a student, blaming ‌his death on what he said was civilizational decline and the failure to stop the “mass invasion of migrants”.

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“Henry Nowak died the same way a civilization dies: abandoned, handcuffed ⁠by authorities who neither trusted nor cared for him, and accused of hate crimes he did not commit,” Vance said on X. “Each time a life like ​his is lost, the proper response — the only response — is righteous anger.”

Vance said Nowak would be alive today “if the last few generations of European elites had ​stood their ground against the politics of self-hatred and the mass invasion of migrants, many of whom despise the West and the people who love it”.

A spokesperson for Prime Minister Keir Starmer, responding to Vance’s comments, said the Nowak family did not want his death to be used to create further division or hatred.

“We should respect their wishes,” the spokesperson ​said. “Even in the most terrible circumstances, our politics should bring people together. That is who we are as a country.”

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