Donald Trump accuses Joe Biden of allowing ‘bloodbath’ at US-Mexico border

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump accused President Joe Biden of waging a “massacre” at the U.S.-Mexico border on Tuesday, escalating his inflammatory rhetoric on the campaign trail in two Midwestern battleground states that could threaten the 2024 election. The outcome of the election is crucial.

Trump, who has accused immigrants of “poisoning the nation’s blood” and vowed to launch the largest domestic deportations in U.S. history if he wins re-election, accused Biden of allowing a “bloodbath” that would “destroy the country.”

In Michigan, he called immigrants in the U.S. illegally and suspected of committing crimes “animals,” using dehumanizing language that those who study extremism warn increases the risk of violence.

“Under crooked Joe Biden, every state is now a border state. Every town is now a border town because Joe Biden brought carnage, mayhem, and killing from around the world and turned it over Dumped right into our backyards,” Trump said in Grand Rapids. flag.

While violent crime has declined, Trump and other Republicans have seized on several high-profile crimes allegedly committed by immigrants in the U.S. illegally to attack Biden as border crossings hit record highs.

Polls show Trump has an edge over Biden on some issues, as many potential voters say they worry about the impact of the border crossings.

Trump continued that theme at a rally in Green Bay, Wisconsin, on Tuesday night as the state held its presidential primary. Trump accused rogue nations of “sending migrants across our open borders” and “sending prisoners, murderers, drug dealers, mentally ill people, terrorists,” despite no evidence that any nation was involved in such a coordinated effort.

He also claimed that immigration would cost the country trillions of dollars in public benefits and lead to the “collapse” of Social Security and Medicare.

“If you want to help Joe Biden push grandma off the cliff and provide government benefits for illegal immigrants, then vote for Crooked Joe Biden,” he said. “But when I become president, instead of throwing grandma overboard, I will send Joe Biden’s illegal immigrants home.”

On Tuesday, the White House emphasized the positive impact immigration has on the U.S. economy. They argue that the recent increase in immigration will help boost employment and continued growth as the Federal Reserve raises interest rates to reduce inflation.

“We know that immigrants strengthen our country and they strengthen our economy,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said during a press briefing on Tuesday, noting that when the Francis Scott Bridge collapsed in Baltimore , immigrants are people who do “critical work.” After being hit by a boat.

Trump’s focus on Tuesday was the killing of Ruby Garcia, a Michigan woman who was found dead on the side of a Grand Rapids highway on March 22.

Police say she was in a relationship with suspect Brandon Ortiz-Vitt. He told police he shot her multiple times during an argument, then dumped her body on the side of the road before driving off in her red Mazda.

Trump mistakenly referred to Garcia, 25, as 17.

Authorities said Ortiz-Vitt was a Mexican citizen who had been deported from the country after a previous DUI arrest. His attorney was not listed in court records.

In his speech, Trump said he had spoken with some of her family members.

However, Garcia’s sister Mavie disputed his account, telling Fox 17 they did not do that. “No, he’s not talking to us,” she told them in a text message, declining to comment further, the outlet said.

She also took to Facebook last week to plead with reporters to stop politicizing her sister’s story, and asked for privacy on Tuesday, saying she just wanted “justice” and “to be left alone.”

Trump also brought up again the killing of Georgia nursing student Laken Riley.

A Venezuelan man who officials say entered the United States illegally has been charged. Riley’s family attended Trump’s rally in Georgia last month and met with him backstage.

Trump calls the suspects in Riley’s death “illegal aliens.”

“Democrats said, ‘Please don’t call them animals. They’re humans. I said, ‘No, they’re not humans, they’re not humans, they’re animals,'” he said.

Overall violent crime in the United States fell again last year, continuing a downward trend after a pandemic-era surge, FBI statistics show.

Michigan’s violent crime rate will drop to a three-year low in 2022, according to new data. Crime rates have also declined in Detroit, Michigan’s largest city, with the fewest homicides last year since 1966.

Top Republicans from across Michigan packed into a conference room in downtown Grand Rapids to hear Trump speak in a county he won in 2016 but lost to Biden in 2020. Outside the event center, more than 100 supporters stood in the cold rain on the street where Trump’s motorcade was expected to pass.

At a nearby park, a small group of immigration reform advocates gathered to observe a moment of silence for Garcia while holding signs that read “No one is illegal” and “Michigan welcomes immigrants.”

In Green Bay, some supporters stayed outside in heavy snow for three hours before entering the venue.

Biden’s campaign has been attacking Trump for his role in dismantling the bipartisan border deal, which would have added 1,500 new Customs and Border Protection agents, among other restrictions, and blamed Trump ahead of the speech. General politicizes death.

“Tomorrow, Donald Trump will come to Grand Rapids, where he is expected to once again try to politicize a tragedy and sow hatred and division to cover up his own record of failure among Michiganders,” the Biden campaign’s Michigan newsletter Director Alyssa Bradley said.

Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, a Democrat, said on Monday that “we do have a problem at our southern border” and “it’s very important that Congress and the president address this issue.”

“There is a solution on the table. It was actually the former president who encouraged Republicans to give up on getting this done,” Whitmer said. “I don’t have a lot of tolerance for political issues when they continue to endanger our economy and, to some extent, our people, as we’ve seen recently in Grand Rapids.”

Trump has been prone to inflammatory rhetoric about the surge of migrants at the southern border. He has described immigrants as “the blood that poisons the country,” questioned whether some of them should be considered human beings, and claimed without evidence that countries have emptied prisons and mental hospitals into the United States.

He also accused Biden and the Democrats of trying to “dismantle the American system, eliminate the actual will of the American electorate, and create a new power base that they can control for generations.”

In Green Bay, Trump spoke from an empty podium that read: “Anytime. Anywhere. Anywhere.” Trump said this was directed at Biden, whose campaign has not yet committed to the debate.