United States: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said on Monday that there are “a lot of bad genes” in America when remarking on murders supposedly committed by Illegal immigrants who are living in the US.
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According to Trump, in an interview with conservative commentator Hugh Hewitt, where the topic of discussion was the immigration policies of Trump’s Democratic opponent, VP Kamala Harris, in the November 5 election.
“Many of them murdered far more than one person, and they’re now happily living in the United States. You know, now a murderer, I believe this, it’s in their genes. And we got a lot of bad genes in our country right now,” Trump added.
Frequent attacks on immigrants
The former president has a long history of immigrants, especially when canvassing for votes, and especially so those who have featured in criminal conduct, msn.com reported.
Occasionally, he has employed despotic language, and he rampantly seeks to make horrific descriptions of the crimes immigrants perpetrate despite research showing they are as lawless as anyone born in the United States.
Presumably, Trump was citing the letter that Immigration and Customs Enforcement sent to Republican Representative Tony Gonzales last month that stated that persons on ICE’s “non-detained docket.”
That docket contains different kinds of aliens who arrived legally and without documents.
This is based on the statement of a spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security, who ascertained that those statistics are misleading.
According to the spokesperson, “The data in this letter is being misinterpreted,” and “The data goes back decades; it includes individuals who entered the country over the past 40 years or more, the vast majority of whose custody determination was made long before this Administration. It also includes many who are under the jurisdiction or currently incarcerated by federal, state, or local law enforcement partners.”
In a statement, the Trump campaign leaped to his defense, arguing that he was only referring to murderers and not immigrants, msn.com reported.
Moreover, Trump campaign press secretary Karoline Leavitt said, “President Trump was clearly referring to murderers, not migrants,” and “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.”