{"id":41318,"date":"2026-06-10T16:33:59","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T16:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/41318\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T16:33:59","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T16:33:59","slug":"belfast-riots-how-our-broken-asylum-system-continues-to-fuel-unrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/41318\/","title":{"rendered":"Belfast riots: How our broken asylum system continues to fuel unrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"Belfast riots: How our broken asylum system continues to fuel unrest\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/T-hbW_X6dDw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nBelfast riots: How our broken asylum system continues to fuel unrest<br \/>\n<br \/>\nTom and Robert are joined by Northern Ireland Reporter Stewart Robson following a night of violence and unrest in Belfast after Monday&#8217;s stabbing attack.<\/p>\n<p>Stewart shares what he witnessed on the ground, describing a &#8220;real determination from some people to make it as dangerous as possible&#8221;, and outlines the latest developments in the case &#8211; as the politicans, police and the victim&#8217;s family call for calm&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Tom and Robert unpack how the economic reality is fuelling anti-immigrant sentiment, discuss why successive Governments have struggled to control immigration, and look at whether opposing parties and their plans to fix the problems have any hope of success.<\/p>\n<p>00:00 Intro<br \/>\n01:42 Man in court over knife attack<br \/>\n04:10 Victim&#8217;s condition<br \/>\n05:47 How violent protests unfolded<br \/>\n08:56 Immigration concerns across Northern Ireland&#8217;s communities<br \/>\n13:30 Rules on asylum seeker travel<br \/>\n15:53 Why politicians find tackling illegal immigration so hard<br \/>\n20:04 What is behind people&#8217;s immigration concerns<br \/>\n23:53 Trump&#8217;s action on immigration<br \/>\n26:44 Has Brexit caused more illegal immigration?<br \/>\n28:57 Robert boils down what needs to be done<br \/>\n29:40 The economy issue underlying everything<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Subscribe to ITV News on YouTube: http:\/\/bit.ly\/2lOHmNj<br \/>\n\u2022 Get breaking news and more stories at http:\/\/www.itv.com\/news<\/p>\n<p>Follow ITV News on TikTok https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@itvnews?lang=en<br \/>\nFollow ITV News on Instagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/itvnews\/<br \/>\nFollow ITV News on Facebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/itvnews\/<br \/>\nFollow ITV News on X: https:\/\/twitter.com\/itvnews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Belfast riots: How our broken asylum system continues to fuel unrest Tom and Robert are joined by Northern&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41319,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[12],"tags":[9505,7266,2891,39796,57,521,2324,380,379,463,40125,361,325,1694,37767,23067,40124],"class_list":["post-41318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-itv-news","tag-asylum","tag-asylum-seeker","tag-belfast","tag-belfast-attack","tag-brexit","tag-catholic","tag-immigration","tag-itv","tag-itv-news","tag-northern-ireland","tag-protestant","tag-reform","tag-reform-uk","tag-republican","tag-restore","tag-riot","tag-unionist"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}