Vice President J.D. Vance criticized European world leaders Friday for allowing their citizens to suffer from “appalling setbacks” caused by mass migration.
Vice President J.D. Vance criticized European world leaders Friday for allowing their citizens to suffer from “appalling setbacks” caused by mass migration throughout the continent during his speech at the Munich Security Conference.
The vice president blamed the “conscious decisions” made by political leaders throughout Europe for the surge in mass migration that has spread across the continent since the beginning of the 2020s. He said that a car attack caused by an Afghan national in Munich, Germany, on Thursday could have been prevented if the nation’s leaders had passed more restrictive laws on who is allowed to enter the country.
“I believe there is nothing more urgent than mass migration,” Vance said. “Today, almost 1 in 5 people living in [Germany] moved here from abroad. That is of course an all-time high. It’s also a similar number in the United States, also an all-time high. The number of immigrants who entered the [European Union] from non-EU countries doubled between 2021 and 2022 alone and of course it’s gotten much higher since. And we know the situation, it didn’t materialize in a vacuum.
