“Sadly, today, different European beaches are stormed by different dangerous ideologies. Beaches in Spain, in Italy, in Greece, and Bulgaria, boats and men arrive,” Hegseth said at the Normandy American Cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer in northwestern France.
The defense secretary was speaking at an event commemorating the 82nd anniversary of Allied forces storming the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944. Operation Overlord eventually led to the recapture of France from the Nazis and the surrender of the Nazi regime some 11 months later.
The Trump Administration has been extremely critical of what it has characterized as lax European immigration policies since President Donald Trump entered his second term, claiming they could lead to the continent’s ruin.
Vice President J.D. Vance gave a similarly controversial speech at the Munich Security Conference in February 2025, which angered European leaders.
Vance noted in his speech a car-ramming attack carried out by an Afghan asylum seeker in Germany the day before his speech.
Vance used the same rhetoric again this week as he publicly blamed the United Kingdom’s immigration policy for the death of 18-year-old British student Henry Nowak, who was fatally stabbed last year in Southampton. He argued in a post on X that Nowak’s death was due to the country’s “mass invasion of migrants”.
The man convicted of killing Nowak was not a migrant, but a British-Sikh.
“The Nowak family are grieving after Henry’s horrific murder. They have said they do not want his death to be used to create further division, hatred or tension,” the statement said. “We should be respecting their wishes.”
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