Written by Bethany Blankley (The Center Square)
Former President Donald Trump held a news conference Thursday with family members of the victims of an alleged murder by an illegal alien in southern Arizona and accused Vice President Kamala Harris of overseeing the incursion at the southern border.
Trump said Harris had “overseen a border invasion that was destroying our country” at the Arizona-Mexico border.
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Harris formally accepted the Democratic nomination for president at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on Thursday night, after Trump, in a press conference, called it a “coup” to oust President Joe Biden.
Trump said, “For nearly four years, Comrade Kamala… has allowed at least 20 million illegal aliens into our country, including millions of undocumented combat-age males from over 158 countries.” The Center Square reported that there have been over 12.5 million illegal border crossings.
Because of Biden-Harris policyBorder Patrol agents are “forced to release tens of thousands of illegal aliens from our custody every week. These are the most brutal criminals you’ve ever seen. Every day, we hear stories of innocent Americans being tortured, raped, murdered, and slaughtered by illegal aliens that Kamala Harris released into our country.”
Trump described the criminals who were released into the United States and the types of crimes they committed either in their home countries or in the United States. Peruvian gang leader Wanted for 23 counts of murder; “an illegal alien who approached two 13-year-old boys in broad daylight in New York City with a machete, dragged them into the woods, bound their wrists and repeatedly raped them in front of other people.”
“Immigrants were arrested on suspicion of raping a 46-year-old woman in Coney Island,” he said. “They threw her to the ground, held a knife to her throat and raped her.” “One of them had previously been arrested for raping another woman, but instead of being deported, he was told to come back and enjoy his life.”
In Fort Wayne, Indiana, “two illegal aliens kidnapped a woman who offered to give her a ride home, held her captive, raped her, and drove around in her car while the illegal aliens discussed how they were going to kill her. They didn’t want there to be witnesses,” Trump said. She escaped by throwing herself from the moving vehicle.
Trump also described crimes in the Bronx allegedly committed by illegal aliens released into the U.S. by Kamala. [who] He approached a 36-year-old woman under the pretense of asking for directions, then wrapped his arms around her neck, forced her to lie on a park bench and raped her in public. She said he wasn’t trying to rape her, he was trying to kill her.”
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The former president also described the sexual assault of two young girls by illegal border crossers in Michigan, the murder of a 54-year-old mother of four in Virginia by “illegal aliens who were trying to steal her car” and “left her on the ground,” and “illegal alien criminals from Venezuela that Comrade Kamala sent in.” [who] A female police officer was shot multiple times with a rifle in Texas.
Trump described the murder of University of Georgia nursing student Lacan Riley, who was “assaulted, beaten, and horribly murdered. Kamala Harris illegally brought in an exotic animal that killed Lacan. This monster was in Border Patrol custody. They didn’t want to let him go, but under Kamala’s policy, he was released to kill, and he did.
“Kamala freed this bloodthirsty killer, but he murdered the beautiful Laken.”
Trump also described “the heartbreaking story of Rachel Moran,” whose family joined the press conference to speak. Rachel was “brutally raped and murdered by an illegal alien who came into our country because of Kamala Harris and her idiotic policies. The barbarian who committed this heinous crime first killed another woman in El Salvador before crossing our open border.” Commit A home invasion in Los Angeles.
Trump said Biden-Harris “has unleashed a deadly scourge of immigration crime on our country” that has “shattered the lives of too many families and stolen the lives of too many amazing young people.”
“We can’t let that happen to other people. We can’t let what you’re going through happen to other families,” he told the Angel families who were with him. One family 12-Year-Old Houston Murder Victim The mother of Trump supporter Jocelyn Nungarei, who said the victims’ lives were taken “for no reason” by “cold, cold-blooded criminals pouring into our country.”
Trump pushed back against claims by some Democrats and media outlets that illegal aliens “don’t commit crimes like people who live here.”
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Center Square has reported for years on how Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents track, apprehend and deport criminals and fugitives who are in the U.S. illegally. In fiscal years 2021 through 2023 alone, ICE agents Get arrested More than 387,000 criminal aliens, Break the record In fiscal 2023, most came from Mexico, Nicaragua, Colombia and Venezuela.
“They make our criminals look like babies,” Trump said. “Our criminals suddenly don’t look so tough. These are the toughest people in the world.”
Jointly published with permission At Center Square.
