US presidential candidate Donald Trump has made racist accusations against migrants that they are bringing “bad genes” into the country – a statement that the US government immediately rejected as “disgusting”. In a radio interview on Monday, the Republican presidential candidate said that his Democratic rival Kamala Harris, as vice president, had allowed thousands of “murderers” into the country through her immigration policies.
Today they lived “in peace and quiet” in the USA. “These murderers, you know, I think it’s in their genes,” the former president said. “And we have a lot of bad genes in our country right now.”
White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre strongly rejected the comments. “This type of language is hateful, disgusting, inappropriate and has no place in our country,” Jean-Pierre told reporters. These are “the same disgusting statements” made by Trump as those about migrants supposedly “poisoning the blood” in the USA.
Migration and the situation at the border with Mexico, through which many undocumented people come to the USA, is one of the important topics of the election campaign. The issue is a weak point for Harris, according to polls, as border crossings into the US reached record numbers in late 2023, during her term as vice president.
The 78-year-old Trump is relying on extremely anti-immigrant rhetoric during his election campaign, insulting undocumented immigrants at almost every one of his campaign appearances and declaring that he would order a mass deportation of migrants if re-elected. His statement that migrants were “poisoning the blood of our country” earned him comparisons to Adolf Hitler.
Four weeks before the presidential election on November 5th, opponents Trump and Harris are neck and neck in the polls in many places. Due to the peculiarities of the US electoral system, the election is likely to be decided in only a few states where the outcome is particularly close. These states also include Arizona, which has a long border with Mexico.
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