Trump says immigrants commit crimes because ‘it’s in their genes’
Ex-President Donald Trump in his latest scathing attack on immigrants has claimed that they commit crimes in the US due to their ‘genes’.
Trump did not hold back in criticizing migrants with less than a month until the presidential election.
‘How about allowing people to come to an open border, 13,000 of which were murderers, many of them murdered far more than one person, and they’re now happily living in the United States,’ Trump said on The Hugh Hewitt Show on Monday.
‘You know now a murder, I believe this, it’s in their genes. And we got a lot of bad genes in our country right now.’
Trump added that his 2024 opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, wants to ‘feed people governmentally’ by going into a ‘Communist Party-type system’.
The former president also accused President Joe Biden’s administration of letting ‘425,000 people come into our country that shouldn’t be here, that are criminals’.
After Trump’s comment, his campaign spokesperson Karoline Leavitt sought to clarify what he meant. She said Trump was ‘referring to murderers, not migrants’.
‘It’s pretty disgusting the media is always so quick to defend murderers, rapists and illegal criminals if it means writing a bad headline about President Trump,’ stated Leavitt.
The White House called Trump’s remarks ‘echoing the grotesque rhetoric of fascists and violent white supremacists’.
Just last week, Trump vowed that if elected, he will deport Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, which has received national attention after he pushed the baseless claim that they’re eating residents’ cats and dogs.
And in December, Trump accused migrants of ‘poisoning the blood of our country’. The Biden campaigned likened that to the words of the late Nazi leader Adolf Hitler.
The number of border crossings decreased this year, according to US officials.
Trump led Harris 53% to 42% on immigration in a New York Times/Siena poll in September.
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