U.S. Vice President Vance Blames Migrant “Invasion” for British Student’s Murder

On Friday, U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance attributed the murder of a white British student to what he described as a “civilizational decline” triggered by a “migrant invasion.” The remarks were made in reference to the death of 18‑year‑old Henry Nowak, who was stabbed by Sikh man Vickrum Digwa in Southampton in December.

Vance’s comments were quickly condemned by the office of British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who said the U.S. official was “interfering in our democracy.”

“Henry Nowak died the same way a civilization dies: abandoned, handcuffed by authorities who neither trusted nor cared for him, and accused of hate crimes he did not commit,” Vance wrote on X. “His murder is as tragic as it is enraging.”

Vance, a long‑time critic of European migration policies, called for “righteous anger” in response to the case. He added that Nowak “should still be alive today” if “the last few generations of European elites had stood their ground against the politics of self‑hatred and the mass invasion of migrants, many of whom despise the West and the people who love it.” He warned that Henry was “far from the first to so needlessly lose his life, and I fear he won’t be the last.”

Digwa, 23, had claimed he was the victim and that Nowak had racially insulted him, but police later found him to be the assailant. The incident sparked right‑wing outrage worldwide and triggered riots in Britain.

U.S. tech entrepreneur Elon Musk, the owner of X and a friend of Vance, posted repeatedly on the platform about the police response to the stabbing. The U.S. State Department also weighed in on Thursday, condemning what it called “ideological conditioning and two‑tiered policing” that contributed to the case.

Vance is the highest‑ranking U.S. official to comment on the matter. The British government rejected the U.S. intervention, with a spokesperson for Prime Minister Starmer saying, “We have seen people trying to interfere in our democracy and seeking to stir up division on our streets.” The spokesperson also noted that the family of Henry Nowak had asked that his killing “not be used to create further division, hatred or tension.”

Starmer accused billionaire Musk on Thursday of “trying to whip up division” in Britain.

The article first appeared on Vanguard News.