Vance leads charge of US officials using Henry Nowak murder to push anti-immigration agenda

Vice-president and state department look to push far-right idea that mass migration is causing civilisational decline How Britain was rocked by Henry Nowak’s murder – and why the US intervened In the state department of past administrations, how to respond to an incendiary event such as the murder of the British student Henry Nowak would have required deliberations, memos and meetings. Given how it has roiled the UK and inflamed tensions over migration and race, the cautious diplomats at Foggy Bottom probably would have said nothing at all. Now they tweet from the hip. “Ideological conditioning and two-tiered policing are glaring symptoms of civilizational decline,” the department’s official account posted on Thursday. “They must be rejected across the West.” This is, after all, the state department that hosted the far-right provocateur Tommy Robinson for a tour earlier this year, has crowdsourced targets for deportation on X, and portrayed the UK – as well as much of Europe – as an ideological prison that celebrates censorship. And it is one that has returned time and again to a thesis shared by much of Europe’s right: that mass migration has threatened the cohesion of western soc