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demonised immigrants during a campaign rally near Dayton, Ohio, on Saturday, telling supporters he thinks of some crossing the border as “animals” or not even “people.”
In a nearly 90-minute speech, the former president described an epidemic of immigrant-committed crimes and claimed, without evidence, that foreign leaders were offloading their prison populations at the southern US border.Trump baselessly suggested other countries were sending gang members and other undesirables to the United States before telling supporters, “I don’t know if you call them ‘people,’ in some cases. They’re not people, in my opinion.
“But I’m not allowed to say that because the radical left says that’s a terrible thing to say,” he defended, later referring to the hypothetical criminal migrants as “animals” and “bad people.”, have found that increased populations of undocumented immigrants are generally associated with decreases in violent crime in any given area.“We can be nice about it, we can talk about, ‘Oh, I want to be politically correct,’” Trump said.
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