President Donald Trump's administration harshly criticized the United Kingdom over its handling of mass immigration and the long-running rape gang scandal that has victimized mostly white girls across the country.
In a statement posted to X, the U.S. State Department called on its Europe-based diplomats to track the effects of rampant immigration. While the statement zeroed in on the U.K., it also highlighted similar problems in Germany and Sweden.
"The State Department instructed U.S. embassies to report on the human rights implications and public safety impacts of mass migration," the statement said. "Officials will also report policies that punish citizens who object to continued mass migration and document crimes and human rights abuses committed by people of a migration background."
The statement referenced the so-called "grooming gangs" made up of mostly Pakistani men who have victimized young girls for decades with little action taken by the government.
"In the United Kingdom, thousands of girls have been victimized in Rotherham, Oxford, and Newcastle by grooming gangs involving migrant men," the State Department said. "Many girls were left to suffer unspeakable abuse for years before authorities stepped in."
A day after the statement was released, GB News reported that U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer told reporters at the G20 in South Africa that the national inquiry would "leave no stone unturned."
The State Department’s warning comes weeks after several victims, members of the independent inquiry, resigned over what they claimed was a continuation of a cover-up.
One abuse survivor, Ellie Reynolds, told cable channel GMB that the existence of grooming gangs has been "brushed under the carpet" and that "our voices have been silenced."
She was supported by fellow survivor Fiona Goddard, who was groomed from the age of 14 and said that when she spoke out for help she was dismissed as a "child prostitute" by authorities.
Goddard resigned to protest the cover-up, saying members of the grooming gangs near Bradford were in the "vast majority ... Pakistani men."
Successive governments — both Conservative and Labour — have been dealing with the revelations for years that a number of grooming gangs, often consisting mostly of men of South Asian or Pakistani heritage, have sexually exploited girls for decades across the north of England.