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Festering anti-immigrant feeling fully revealed over week that began with protest in Ballymena - MSNBy its end, many immigrants were left homeless and scores of police officers injured as festering anti-immigrant sentiment in some communities was fully revealed.
Anti-migrant rhetoric From 7-12 June, 39,000 Ballymena-related posts on X mentioned "migrants", with around 95% of them deemed to be negative by social media analysis tool Talkwalker.
He has not confronted much anti-immigrant sentiment in Ballymena before, he said, but he fears things will be different now. “It’s really sad,” he said.
The eruption of what police described as mob-led "racist thuggery" is particularly dangerous in Northern Ireland due to its legacy of sectarian violence.
The incident sparked the simmering anti-immigrant sentiment in Ballymena, where nearly 5,000 of the 31,000 residents were born outside of Britain, Ireland or Northern Ireland, according to census ...
Violent riots have erupted in Northern Ireland, injuring over 30 police officers after two 14-year-old boys were charged with attempted sexual assault. Triggered by anti-immigrant sentiment and ...
Ballymena, 45 kilometres (28 miles) from Belfast, is a mainly Protestant working-class town that was once the powerbase of Ian Paisley, the fiercely pro-British preacher-politician who died in 2014.
The anti-immigrant sentiment incidentally is not directed at Indians but at the citizens of east European countries. Most foreigners in Ballymena have come from East European countries such as ...
Less than a year on from the far right riots that gripped England last summer, another part of the UK finds itself engulfed in a rampage of violence sparked by anti-immigrant sentiment.
Northern Ireland Festering anti-immigrant feeling fully revealed over week that began with protest in Ballymena Violence on the streets, dozens of police officers injured, attacks on individual ...
The incident sparked the simmering anti-immigrant sentiment in Ballymena, where nearly 5,000 of the 31,000 residents were born outside of Britain, Ireland or Northern Ireland, according to census data ...
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