Trump praises Starmer on turning around migrant boats: 'Fantastic thing'

President Donald Trump commended British Prime Minister Keir Starmer's immigration policies as the U.K. leader reported removing 35,000 people.

A police officer watches on as a Maritime Gendarmerie rib approaches a small boat full of migrants heading in to the English Channel on July 2, 2025, in Gravelines, France.  (Dan Kitwood/Getty Images) A small boat heads off in to the English Channel after picking up migrants at sunrise on July 2, 2025, in Gravelines, France.  (Dan Kitwood/Getty Images) Traffickers, with their faces covered, try to manage the scene as migrants wade into the water to be collected by a small boat at sunrise on July 2, 2025, in Gravelines, France.  (Dan Kitwood/Getty Images) Danielle Wallace is a breaking news and politics reporter at Fox News Digital. Story tips can be sent to danielle.wallace@fox.com and on X: @danimwallace. 

"Immigration is a big, a big factor. And I think, frankly, if they're coming from other countries, and you don't know who they are, and, are they coming from prisons? We have them where they came in from prisons who are moving them all out," Trump began. "Last month, we had zero people come into the country, zero other than coming through legal means."

"You're doing not a good thing, you're doing a fantastic thing," Trump added. So I know nothing about the boats. But if the boats are loaded up with bad people, and they usually are, because, you know, other countries don't send their best, they send people that they don't want, they're not stupid people. And they send the people that they don't want. And I've heard that you've taken a much stronger stance on."