US President Donald Trump’s administration might be considering granting asylum to British Jews, Trump’s personal lawyer has said, alleging that “the UK is no longer a safe place for Jews.”

Robert Garson, a Jewish attorney from Manchester, England, with rising influence in the Trump administration, said he proposed the move to the State Department, speaking to The Telegraph in an interview published on Sunday. Garson said his proposal was well received despite the Trump administration’s general anti-immigration stance.

“I have spoken to the State Department as to whether the president should be offering British Jews asylum in the US,” he said.

The US State Department did not respond to a request for comment on the interview, and the administration has given no indication of any plan to grant refugee status to British Jews.

“I thought: Jews are being persecuted in the United Kingdom,” Garson said. “They fit a wonderful demographic for the United States. They are, on the whole, educated. They speak English natively. They’ve got businesses. They’re exactly the sort of immigrant the United States should want to attract. So, why not?”

Garson said his views on the future of Jews in Britain hardened after the terror attack on a synagogue in his hometown last year. Two people were killed at the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation in Manchester on Yom Kippur after a man rammed his car into a crowd of people and stabbed others.

In October, the White House announced that it would restrict the number of refugees admitted to the United States in 2026 to 7,500, mostly reserving those spots for white South........

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