President Donald J. Trump recently stated that migrants had destroyed the cities of London and Paris. He’s right.

“Look what’s happened in London, look what’s happening in Paris,” Trump said to the crowd while endorsing a plan that could see large-scale deportations of illegals that have come into the United States under the Biden-Harris regime.

Trump correctly asserts that mass migration, particularly illegal migration, has radically transformed both of these once-gleaming international destinations.

TOUR DE FARCE.

Paris has become a hub for illegals, and tent encampments are not uncommon, full of hundreds, sometimes thousands, of illegals and asylum seekers. Of those, some are underage Moroccans who engage in petty theft and drug-related crime. In 2018, Paris police arrested 1552 Moroccan migrant minors but only managed to deport six of them.

Underage Africans have also been forced to work as “soldiers” for drug gangs in Paris and elsewhere in Europe.

Migrants are vastly overrepresented in crime in Paris. In 2023, 30 out of 97 rapes on the streets of the capital were actually solved. Among those arrested, 77 percent were foreigners. Even President Emmanuel Macron has admitted that around half of the crime in Paris is committed by foreigners.

Education has also been affected by mass migration, most notably in the case of teacher Samuel Paty, who was beheaded in the street in a suburb of Paris in October of 2020 by a radical Islamist Chechen asylum seeker because he showed a picture of the Islamic prophet Mohammed to his class.

Just three years later, in October of 2023, another teacher, Dominique Bernard, was stabbed to death by another Chechen Islamist in Northern France.

Even leftist pro-diversity parents in Paris have complained that “diverse” schools in their districts are failing and are attempting to move their own children elsewhere.

LONDON FALLING.

The effect of mass migration on London is even more stark than in Paris. Census data shows that native white British people now make up just 36.8 percent of the city’s population; by contrast, white British made up just over 97 percent of the city’s population in 1961.

In London, black residents comprise around 13.5 percent of the total population. Still, according to statistics cited by London’s own local government, black Londoners account for 61 percent of knife murder perpetrators and 53 percent of knife crime perpetrators overall.

While many of those listed may have been born in Britain, their ancestors came from abroad in the decades-long policy of mass migration to which the UK has been subjected.

Mass migration has also brought crimes not seen previously in the British capital, like acid attacks, with 107 such incidents seen in 2022. Machete assaults have also become more common, though they are included in statistics on overall knife crime.

Mass migration, among other factors, has also had a negative effect on healthcare, particularly hospital wait times. In June of this year alone, over 7,200 Londoners were forced to wait 12 hours or more to be fully admitted to a hospital in the city.

Housing availability is also a major issue for Londoners, and mass migration has only made the problem worse as local governments are running out of money to house people in temporary accommodations.

Over 60,000 households in London are homeless, with 80,000 homeless children often living in temporary accommodations like hotels or elsewhere. The number of homeless households in temporary accommodation increased by 70 percent from 2010 to 2024.

Illegal immigrants crossing the English Channel, meanwhile, are costing UK taxpayers millions of pounds per day as they are housed in hotels across the country.

Trump is correct that mass migration is destroying Paris and London, along with many other cities and towns across the UK, France, and elsewhere in Europe. Unlike Trump, however, European leaders have no plan to reverse the trend, and very few are willing to even consider it.