#anti-migrant-sentiment

#anti-migrant-sentiment

From London to Lisbon, politicians from centre-right and centre-left parties alike had steadily eroded social programmes, fostering a sense of scarcity and creating fertile ground for the stirring up of anti-migrant sentiment, said Olivier De Schutter, the UN special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights. If we were doing more, people would not feel threatened, they would not fear falling behind, he said.

A group of men in Belfast have surrounded and attacked two cars and forced their drivers to flee in suspected racially-motivated hate crimes. At least a dozen men, some masked, targeted the motorists on Monday evening near Connswater retail park in what appeared to be the latest incident in a vigilante campaign against migrants in the east of the city. The Police Service of Northern Ireland said it was investigating both incidents as racially-motivated hate crimes.