European countries are “going to hell” because “illegal aliens are pouring in”, Donald Trump told the UN last week. But, in actual fact, the number of migrants arriving in Europe is going down – dramatically.

EU border management figures show that, in the first eight months of this year, 112,000 people crossed illegally into Europe – down 21% from last year, said The Economist . That’s “an even more impressive” 52% drop from the comparable period in 2023, and an astonishingly small number compared with 2015, when “the continent’s biggest flows of refugees since the Second World War” saw over a million people enter Europe on asylum routes.

What did the commentators say?

The figures aren’t falling because the “underlying causes of migration have changed” but because, in response to a sh

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