Archbishop Warns of Racism in U.K. Immigration Debate
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Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby said he’s extremely worried about language being used in the debate on immigration in the U.K., on the day Defence Secretary Michael Fallon apologized for saying parts of Britain were being “swamped.”
“Do I worry about the language? I do, I really do,” Welby said at a lunch for journalists in Parliament in London. He said Church of England vicars are reporting “an upsurge in minor racist, anti-semitic, anti-Islamic, anti-foreigner, xenophobic” remarks which immigrants find “really quite frightening.”