Former president Donald Trump On Wednesday, people claimed He crossed the US-Mexico border they also bring infectious diseases with them.
“They come as terrorists. Many, many terrorists are coming and people are coming with very contagious diseases,” Trump said during an interview with New York radio station WABC on Tuesday.
“You know, suddenly you find that you have tuberculosis. There’s a run on things in this country that we haven’t talked about for years,” Trump added.
In an interview with The National Pulse in September, Trump made similar claims about illegal immigrants bringing disease across the southern border. “We are poisoning the blood of our country.”
“This is a very sad situation for our country. It poisons the blood of our country. It is very bad and people come with diseases. People come with everything you can have,” Trump said said in December At a rally in New Hampshire.
In an interview on Wednesday, Trump again claimed that people who cross the border into the United States speak unfamiliar and unknown languages.
“We have no idea who they are, where they come from,” Trump said. “We have no idea. They speak in languages we don’t even know. There are people whose languages we know nothing about. This is crazy,” Trump continued.
Most of Trump violent rhetoric The out-of-control southern border is a regular rallying point for him, with the former president repeatedly claiming that people crossing the border are from “mental institutions” and “lunatic asylums”.
Trump has vowed to impose stricter border regulations, often citing increased migration from South and Central American countries. last saturday While speaking at the NRA’s annual conventionTrump said if he were the leader of the South American country, he would send criminals and prisoners to America “faster than they do.”
“Those who wisely sent all their criminals, prisoners and gangs in South America to our country,” Trump said. “I would have done the same thing if I had been there. I would do the same. I would do it faster than them,” he said.
While pledging to strengthen and work closely with local law enforcement agencies in border communities, Trump remained vague on specific policies he would use to strengthen border security. That hasn’t stopped Trump’s sharp criticism of Biden’s handling of the border — a key point of attack for Trump ads and fundraising emails.
Von Hillyard contributed.