In an attempt to disparage his Democratic rival, Kamala Harris, for her immigration record, Mr. Trump used data from the Department of Homeland Security.
Mr. Trump stated, “How about allowing people to come through an open border, 13,000 of whom were murderers?” in a radio interview with conservative commentator Hugh Hewitt.
“Many of them murdered considerably more than one victim. And they’re currently contentedly residing in America.
As far as murderers go, I think it runs in their family. We currently have a large number of defective genes in our nation.
Subsequently, 425,000 criminals who shouldn’t have been here entered our nation.
But the figures covered decades, including the years while Mr. Trump was president.
His campaign has made an effort to refute allegations that Mr. Trump made a suggestion that immigrants had a hereditary propensity for murder.
The national communications secretary for the Trump campaign, Karoline Leavitt, stated that “he was obviously referring to murderers, not migrants.”
The media’s constant willingness to stand up for rapists, murderers, and illegal immigrants in order to create a negative headline about President Trump is really sick.
In response to Mr. Trump’s remarks, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre stated: “That kind of rhetoric is vile, disgusting, improper, and has no place in our nation.
