Trump’s visit to the UK seemed to be dominated by trade. Immigration protests indicate otherwise

When King Charles, based on the advice of the British government, expanded an invitation to US President Donald Trump on a second visit to the United Kingdom, commercial and economic relations seemed to dominate discussions.

But when Air Force One at Stanttement Airport on Tuesday night, Trump will find himself landing in a country where political priorities turn.

While the economic growth of Britain’s poverty and the uncertainty resulting from the Trump tariff are still serious fears, what immediately concerns its host, Prime Minister Kiir Starmer, is the return of migration to the summit of the political agenda in the country.

The last time it happened, in 2016, the feelings were to the point that the British converted to the exit of Britain from the European Union and voted for the promotion of the European Union.

This time, it is not a flood of new arrivals from less parts of Europe that have angered people-that it is an irreversible access to small boats that carry asylum seekers from the poorest Asian and African countries, such as Afghanistan and Sudan.

Up to 30,000 people, a fatal – and illegal trip – through the English channel this year, confusing most of the efforts made by French and British governments to prevent them.

It is closely related to the issue of small boats The cost of housing asylum seekers In government paid hotels-more than two billion pounds this year alone-besides widespread complaints, are valid or not, that they have fueled violent crime and social turmoil in neighboring societies.

Britain also starts from an unprecedented increase in legal immigration, led by students and workers from places such as Nigeria and India, raising concerns that will be familiar to Canadians, including pressure on the housing market and public services and responsible for social change very quickly.

Farge fed

The UK Correctional – which was partially designed on its Canadian name, which was founded by Preston Manning – the main political beneficiary of widespread discontent, pushed him to invisible heights in British policy.

The extreme right -wing party led by the President of Brexiteer, Nigel Faraj has only five seats in the British Parliament (one of them came this week with the defection of a deputy governor), but multiple opinion polls now indicate that if the elections are held today, Farraj will become the next Prime Minister in the country.

In fact, former governments conservative in Boris Johnson and Rishi Sonak attempted to use a migration migration to start the UK economy after the Covid-19s, but Starmer and its front seat that pays a sharp political price.

in One opinion poll, 70 percent of the British said they felt immigration – including people who have legally arrived – very high.

During the weekend, London witnessed one of the biggest protests in years, with immigration at the forefront of concerns.

More than 150,000 people walked through the city’s bridges waving lonely and carrying flags that include the Saint George Red and White Cross, and they called for deportation and stopping migration.

“The non -legitimate women are more protected than me,” Dominic Bocher, who came to the event that was wearing a self -made hat with “Mega”, or made England again, is a play on the fashionable Maga logo of Trump.

“I have two children, I am afraid to go to the city because it seems that there is a lot of attack, there are sexual assaults, rape, and it seems that everything cannot be controlled at the present time,” Boucher told CBC News.

The extent to which immigrants – legal or illegal – challenges the crime in the United Kingdom severely by refugee advocates and academic experts. However, the idea was a major topic for many people in the streets on Saturday.

Nothing but Elon Musk, a well -known enthusiastic right -wing parties in Europe and the main adults in the public service in the public service in Trump, this message is hidden in the appearance of the video link in this event.

“Violence is coming. Either you fight or die,” He said muskIn reference to what was called “huge and unproductive immigration” and called for the dissolution of the current government of Britain.

Faraj has It is similar to over and over again The migratory boat crossings to the “invasion” said that Britain should withdraw from any legal treaties or international agreements that require giving asylum sessions to people, though this It is part of international law.

Reforming the position of the United Kingdom It is that everyone who reaches a small boat, regardless of his circumstances or background, must be automatically deported.

Decrease

The fact is that migration has fallen significantly in the past two years. The arrival of migrants to small boats across the channel is a relatively small part of people coming to the United Kingdom

“This idea that we do not control our limits was kidnapped by a specific department of policy makers, especially politicians,” said Jenny Felimore, a professor of migration and superior diversity at the University of Birmingham. “All social and economic problems are blamed by some people for immigrants in this country.”

according to Government personalities, The net immigration reached a peak in 2023, when the UK acquired 906,000 people. Over the past twenty years, the annual net gains have been much lower-at a range of 200,000-300,000.

Since 2023, migration has decreased sharply, with a net profit of 431,000 in 2024.

The largest group of new arrivals is still students – not refugee claims – granted visas to study in schools and universities in the United Kingdom. Health care workers are the largest group.

In comparison, people who illegally connect across the channel represent only one percentage of the total.

The crossings reached their climax in 2022, when 45,000 people came. So far in 2025, the number of expatriates is 30,000.

“The boats are small, small from (the deportation issue),” said Felimore. “But it is the most obvious.”

“One in one”

The new rules offered by the Starmer government aim to reduce legal immigration more.

It led to a new agreement with France, known as the name “One in one base”Where every immigrant is deported to France, Britain will allow pre -prosecutor to enter the country legally.

The government also stressed Civil rules for survival in Britain. All migrants will now have to meet higher standards of efficiency in the English language. Qualifications have been raised for people coming as skilled workers and the government restricted the period in which people who come to student visas may remain after the end of their educational program.

It also extends the time frame to qualify for permanent residence in Britain.

But the question of how to stop channel boats is still confused by British policy makers, and Felimore says that housing migrants in hotels have always been a terrible idea.

She said: “If you put 300 young people, they suffer from a shock, in one place, you share rooms with complete strangers, nothing to do throughout the day, there will be problems, whether they are British citizens or anyone they are.”

The Starmer government promised to end the hotel residence for asylum seekers within four years, and to break up people on apartments, private apartments, or transformed military barracks instead.

However, the broader political reaction drives the work to work faster.

Measuring Trump’s effect

The extent of Donald Trump’s influence on Britain’s anti -migrant movement is difficult to distinguish.

While announcing the state of emergency on the borders of the United States and Mexico and cutting most of the refugee claims in line with the UK reform policies, the US President is still a very unpopular figure in Britain.

“I am not interested in the Americans. I am more interested in my country than there,” CBC told CBC on Saturday.

Along with the demonstrators on the streets of London last week, there was a much smaller group of counter -professionals, which included Cathy Orkhart. She was criticizing the government of Starmer for not pushing it strongly to what she was saying were false accounts of immigrants.

She said: “I feel incredibly anxious about the creeping height of extreme right -wing activity in our streets, outside asylum -seekers, which makes the colored people feel insecure throughout the country,” she said.

“It is terrifying to see, and … a politician leaves this.”