Police put English town on lockdown to quell anti-immigration protests
Caroline MolloyBritish police in the seaside town of Gosport in Hampshire, England, have arrested at least 12 British citizens for protesting the government’s resettlement of illegal aliens in the area. According to reports on X, police issued a sweeping lockdown order for Gosport over the weekend in anticipation of the arrival of a boat of illegal aliens crossing the English Channel from France.
An estimated 350 protestors gathered Oct. 4 despite the lockdown. Police had formed a barricade to prevent protestors and townspeople from approaching the marina, where Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) watercraft were busy transferring illegal aliens from their boat to shore. Officially, 149 illegal aliens were brought to shore, but reports on X suggest that the number is significantly higher, well into the hundreds.
“Far more invaders than first thought. Hundreds pour in,” English Defence League founder and political activist Tommy Robinson said in an X post. “Police waiting to give them an escort to a hotel near you!”
Hampshire County Councillor George Madgwick, a member of the immigration restrictionist Reform UK party, posted a video to X showing multiple police vans driving into Gosport ahead of the protest.
