Washington Examiner Editorial Director Hugo Gurdon said Europeans are not surprised by the latest record-high number of immigrants residing in the European Union, but it does “shock” them.
“They don’t surprise because Europeans have felt that their governments and essentially the power establishments have been ignoring their concerns about this for years,” Gurdon said on Fox News’s the Will Cain Show Thursday.
The number of immigrants living in the EU increased to a record high of 64.2 million in 2025, a 2.1 million jump from 2024, according to a report published on Wednesday by the Centre for Research and Analysis on Migration at RFBerlin.
Gurdon said even if the immigrants were “assimilating,” it would still be “too many.”
“The truth is these people are not assimilating,” Gurdon said. “The people who want to migrate most, obviously come from the most dysfunctional countries. That’s why they want to get out, who can blame them?”
“They are also the people who are the least capable of assimilating to the norms of Europe, the rule of law, [and] the institutions of Europe, the ways of Europe,” he said.
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Gurdon said because of their backgrounds, immigrants are “encouraged” not to assimilate.
“They came from alien ethnicities, alien countries, often hostile ethnicities, and they are encouraged by the Left, just as they are here, not to assimilate because of course the Left all across the West wants to undermine Western values,” he said. “It’s a really dangerous situation.”