Immigrants bring bad genes to the United States

Trump criticized his Vice Presidential rival Kamala Harris in a radio interview when he brought up government figures that he says show that 13,000 immigrants are not in custody despite being convicted of murder

– They are now living happily in the United States, Trump told host Hugh Hewitt.

– You know, people who kill, and I think that, it’s in their genes. We have a lot of bad genes in our country right now. 425,000 people have come to our country who should not be here and are criminals, Trump said.

However, he had misunderstood figures released in September by the US immigration agency ICE. The numbers do not include people detained outside ICE facilities, and cover a period spanning several decades, including when Trump himself was president. to sit

– You have to think about the consequences

US media reported on Monday that the number of migrant apprehensions at the US-Mexico border fell 75 percent year-on-year in September, to the lowest level since the Trump administration, citing statistics from the US Department of Homeland Security.

– I usually do not defend Trump’s statements, and even here he lies about 13,000 murderers being released, says the conservative political commentator Richard Hanania, who heads the Center for the Study of Party and Ideology (CSPI).

– But it is true that crime is largely sexual. He should just learn about how few immigrants commit crimes and think about the consequences of what he says.

Trump, who is trailing Harris in several polls ahead of the November election, has spent much of the campaign disparaging both undocumented immigrants and those in the US legally.

Violent accusations

At a campaign rally in September, the 78-year-old former reality star said Harris should be fired over President Joe Biden’s border policies, calling immigrants “animals.” to go out to rape, loot, steal and kill. “

He has also repeatedly threatened Haitians living legally in Ohio with deportation and has been accused of eating local residents’ pets, which is not true.

Trump, who is the oldest presidential candidate ever and the first with a previous conviction, accused immigrants of “poisoning the blood of our country” in December, a phrase that caused many to draw parallels with Adolf Hitler, according to AFP.

Trump, who has been married three times, has four children with two women who were not born in the United States – the late Ivana Trump of the Czech Republic and his current wife Melania Trump of Slovenia. He also has one daughter with his American wife Marla Maples.