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With one week left until the US presidential election, the immigration issue is once again emerging as a key issue.
Trump criticized Harris and pledged to help crime victims by seizing the assets of immigrant crime syndicates.
On the other hand, Harris’s team took issue with the so-called ‘garbage island’ remark made by a supporting speaker at Trump’s New York rally.
This is correspondent Jaeyong Kim from Washington.
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Trump held a press conference at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida and announced that he would seize the assets of illegal immigration gangs and drug cartels and use the money to help victims.
He also harshly criticized Harris for neglecting the border issue.
[도널드 트럼프/공화당 대선후보]
“Kamala’s cruelty and her immoral behavior on the border really disqualifies her. In my opinion, she is unfit.”
He claimed that the reason Wall Street said the economy was good was because he was going to get elected.
Harris’s team took issue with Trump’s remarks at his New York rally.
This is where a comedian who appeared as a supporting speaker referred to Puerto Rico, a U.S. territory, as a garbage island.
[토니 힌치클리프/코미디언 (트럼프 지지 연사)]
“There’s literally a floating ‘garbage island’ in the middle of the ocean right now. I think it’s called Puerto Rico.”
In addition, he made disparaging comments about black people and immigrants.
The statement itself is problematic, but it is predicted that the fact that there are 6 million Puerto Rican immigrants in the United States could become an issue in the direction of the presidential election.
In particular, since there are more than 400,000 people in Pennsylvania, a key battleground state, a 1-2% difference in victory or defeat can be a decisive variable.
The Democratic Party immediately attempted to make it an issue.
Harris criticized Trump for being obsessed with division, while Representative Ocasio-Cortez, a Puerto Rican immigrant, called it a hate rally and took aim at Trump, saying he does not believe in equality and only cares about those who are loyal to him.
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“Trump is not talking about our people. He is talking about people who are loyal enough to him, and those are the people he considers Americans.”
Trump’s side described it as a “joke in question” and explained that it had nothing to do with Trump’s perspective or position, but there are observations that it could be a significant variable in the presidential election, which is only a week away.
This is Jaeyong Kim from MBC News in Washington.
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