Reform UK party leader Nigel Farage is leading opposition calls for stricter immigration policies amid national unrest triggered by a Sudanese migrant’s attempted beheading of a local in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Belfast, a city historically scarred by sectarian violence, experienced some of its worst rioting in years on Tuesday, this time against immigration. Organized groups masked and clad in black launched organized attacks against migrant housing, public transportation, and police. It was the city’s third major anti-immigration riot in three years, with the last occurring exactly one year prior.

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