Donald Trump escalated his anti-immigrant rhetoric and doubled down on his personal insults against Kamala Harris in a speech in the battleground state of Wisconsin on Saturday.
Trump’s speech in the small community of Prairie du Chien, where a Venezuelan living in the United States was illegally detained in September on suspicion of sexually assaulting a woman and assaulting her daughter, was unusually almost entirely illegal. Dedicated to immigrants. He falsely claimed that immigrants in the United States were violent criminals, calling them “stone-cold murderers,” “monsters,” and “vile animals.”
The Republican presidential candidate is flanked by posters of illegal immigrants arrested for murder and other violent crimes, as well as banners that read “End Immigration Crime” and “Deport Illegal Immigrants Now.” Ta.
Trump is in a tight race with Democratic candidate and Vice President Kamala Harris ahead of the November 5 election. Immigration at the southern border is one of the top issues for voters, according to polls.
President Trump on Friday attacked Harris, who visited the U.S.-Mexico border for the first time during the 2024 presidential campaign, calling her “mentally ill” and “mentally ill.”
The former president criticized Harris and Joe Biden for allowing illegal immigrants into the United States, accusing some of them of wanting to “rape, pillage, steal, pillage, and kill American citizens.” did.
“This is a dark speech,” Trump admitted at one point.
“No matter what lies she tells, there is no more dishonest act than crossing borders and extinguishing a country’s sovereignty,” he said.
“Kamala Harris should never be forgiven for erasing our borders, and she should never be allowed to be president of the United States of America and the state of Wisconsin,” he added.
In the middle of President Trump’s remarks, a video was released that was intended to attack Kamala Harris.
It was a collection of Harris’ comments on immigration policy.
“She’s a disaster. She’s not going to do anything for the border,” he said after the video. “She is incompetent and a bad person.”
“She’s a Marxist,” he added.
J.D. Vance continued her attack on Harris in a speech in Newton, Pennsylvania, ensuring that she continues the former president’s anti-immigrant rhetoric.
“The problem with Kamala Harris is that she has no substance,” said President Trump’s running mate. “The problem with Kamala Harris is that she doesn’t have a plan. And the problem with Kamala Harris is that she has been vice president for three and a half years and has failed this country.”
Mr. Vance claimed without evidence that Ms. Harris played a role in worsening the economy by exacerbating inflation, and went on to link the country’s economic woes to immigration and “invasion” amid inadequate border controls. ” accused Mr. Harris of what he described as conduct.
Vance argued that the presence of immigrants in the United States contributes to rising housing costs.
According to government data, about 7 million immigrants have been apprehended for illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border during the Biden administration, the highest number on record, prompting President Trump and other Republicans to Criticism of Mr. Biden is increasing.
During a border visit on Friday, Harris outlined plans to repair a “broken immigration system,” accusing Trump of “fanning the flames of fear and division” over the impact immigrants have on American life. did.
Harris also called for stronger asylum restrictions and vowed to make stopping fentanyl flowing into the United States a “top priority.”
Before ending his speech, President Trump called to the stage the mother of Rachel Morin, a 37-year-old mother of five from Maryland who was murdered last year. A man from El Salvador was arrested after Rachel’s death. President Trump is using the incident to back up his statements about Central American immigrants living in the United States.
Studies have generally found no evidence that immigrants commit crimes at higher rates than native-born Americans, and critics say President Trump’s rhetoric reinforces racist tropes. It states that
Opponents of President Trump have accused him of cynically exploiting grieving families to fuel claims that foreign-born, often Hispanic, immigrants are part of an invading force.
But some of the victims’ families have welcomed President Trump’s focus on violent crime and the number of teen deaths from the opioid drug fentanyl, many of whom cross the southern border into the United States. is flowing into the country.
