Vance leads charge of US officials using Henry Nowak murder to push anti-immigration agenda

Vice-president and state department look to push far-right idea that mass migration is causing civilisational decline

• How Britain was rocked by Henry Nowak's murder - and why the US intervened

In the state department of past administrations, how to respond to an incendiary event such as the murder of the British student Henry Nowak would have required deliberations, memos and meetings. Given how it has roiled the UK and inflamed tensions over migration and race, the cautious diplomats at Foggy Bottom probably would have said nothing at all.

Now they tweet from the hip. Ideological conditioning and two-tiered policing are glaring symptoms of civilizational decline," the department's official account posted on Thursday. They must be rejected across the West."