Former President Donald Trump on Friday repeatedly called for the death penalty against migrants who kill US citizens and law enforcement officers.
“I hereby call for the death penalty for any immigrant who kills an American citizen or law enforcement officer,” Trump said at a campaign rally in Reno, Nevada.
The former president did same note During a rally in Aurora, Colorado earlier in the day.
There is also Trump called before for the introduction of the death penalty against human and drug traffickers.
A spokesman for Trump’s campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment Friday night.
The comment comes as a former president reinforces anti-immigrant rhetoric while trying to defeat Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee he is trying to portray as “border king” He is to blame for the immigration policies of the Biden administration.
Trump has often used tactics to portray non-citizens entering the United States as a threat to American livelihoods and security.
During his rally in Aurora, Trump used accusatory rhetoric and declared that he would “save” the city. as he characterized “invaded and conquered” by migrants who entered the country illegally.
“I will save Aurora and every city that has been invaded and conquered,” Trump said.
Trump has repeatedly claimed Colorado’s third-largest city is overrun by gang members from Venezuela, and during a speech in Colorado on Friday accused Harris of allowing an “army of illegal alien gang members and migrant criminals” into the United States from “prisons.” third world” and destroyed cities like Aurora.
Aurora Mayor Mike Coffman, a Republican, denied such allegations. says last month he wanted to show the former president that “the narrative is not true by any stretch of the imagination”.
Trump has made similar claims linked immigrants to violence in other states.
During the presidential debates last month, he spoke of Haitian immigrants eating local domestic animals Although Springfield, Ohio local officials saying they had received no credible reports of immigrants harming pets.