LONDON: Britain´s interior minister Sajid Javid on Friday recalled being told "to go back to where I came from" as a child, condemning extremist language after comments by US President Donald Trump.
Trump confronted allegations of bigotry this week when he tweeted that four Democrat congresswomen - all US nationals - could "return" to the nations from which they came.
Executive Theresa May prior censured Trump's language as "totally inadmissible".
Javid, whose Muslim guardians moved from Pakistan to Britain before he was conceived in 1969, encouraged open figures to "moderate their language".
Propelling an audit into Britain's counter-radicalism technique, he said against settler talk was stirring perilous division.
"Around the world, populism and even open racism have catapulted extremists to power," he said.
"I´m from an immigrant family. I know what it´s like to be told to go back to where I came from," said Javid, recounting feeling scared, angry and confused.
"We should stand up to the fantasies about migration that radicals use to drive divisions," he said.
"We must confront the myths about immigration that extremists use to drive divisions," he said.
As indicated by the most recent Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures, immigration kept running at 627,000 in the year to September 2018, with net migration at 283,000.
Net relocation from European Union nations has tumbled to a level last observed in 2009, while non-EU net movement is at the most elevated level since 2004.
Movement was a key factor in Britain's vote to leave the EU. The ONS UK populace gauge for mid 2018 was 66,436,000.
Javid said the fanaticism issue has spread from radicalisation by gatherings like Islamic State to the extreme left and right of legislative issues.
"Public discourse is hardening and becoming less constructive," he said.
"Everyone has a part to play: broadcasters who must not give a platform to extremists; police who must swoop on the worst offenders; public figures who must moderate their language."
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