As violent riots grip France, British political leader Nigel Farage warned Americans against repeating what he described as Europe’s mass immigration failures, arguing that years of unchecked migration have transformed European cities and fueled unrest that could eventually spread elsewhere.
“People like me who were warning about this years ago have sadly been proven right, but the problems are gonna be here for a very, very long time,” Farage told Fox News Digital in an interview. “Please, please don’t make the same level of mistakes that we have,” he said in his message to Americans.
Violent riots have erupted across parts of Europe in recent weeks, particularly in France, with Farage pointing to years of mass migration and failed political leadership as key factors fueling the unrest. The Reform UK leader singled out Emmanuel Macron, arguing that the French president should have mobilized the military to confront the violence, after education protests spiraled into riots, destruction and theft.
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“Macron was asleep at the wheel, and it isn’t just that he was at a concert,” Farage said. “And whilst the French do have effective police forces, the scale of the uprising, I mean the mass looting, the mass looting and violence that took place in Paris was genuinely horrendous.”
“Meloni’s reaction was swifter and a better sign of leadership,” Farage said, referring to the Italian leader deploying 500 military troops to Milan in response to recent riots. “But the problem is, for people like Macron, who have always said, any criticism of immigration, whether legal or illegal, makes you racist, they psychologically find it hard to face up to their own failures of policy.”
Farage warned that the unrest he described in France and elsewhere in Europe could eventually erupt in Britain, pointing to demonstrations in London and questioning whether British leaders would respond more forcefully than Macron.
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“You know, my real worry is they can happen in this country too,” Farage said. “We’ve got the same hard left here. We’ve the same hate mobs that march, chanting in the streets of London, from the river to the sea.”
“I’m concerned that these things could happen here. And I wonder whether a British Prime Minister has got any more courage than President Macron in France,” he added.
Farage contrasted Europe’s failure to control its borders with President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown in the United States.
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“Look, whatever you think of President Trump’s current policies, one thing he has done, and he promised he’d do. He’s closed the southern border,” Farage said.
vowed Tuesday to treat potential rioters in the U.S. “very rough,” pointing to the unrest in France,” he said at a rally in Greenville, North Carolina before being
