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Former President Donald Trump on Saturday stated he floated the thought of getting a “migrant league of fighters” to UFC President Dana White, once more using dehumanizing language to explain individuals who enter the US illegally.
“I stated, ‘Dana, I’ve an concept: Why don’t you arrange a migrant league of fighters and have your common league of fighters. After which you’ve gotten the champion of your league — these are the best fighters on this planet — combat the champion of the migrants. I believe the migrants’ man would possibly win, that’s how robust they’re,” the presumptive GOP presidential nominee stated at a gathering of Christian conservatives in Washington.
Trump added, “He didn’t like that concept an excessive amount of, however really, it’s not the worst concept I’ve ever had.”
The previous president repeated the feedback at a marketing campaign rally in Philadelphia later Saturday.
President Joe Biden’s marketing campaign swiftly denounced the feedback Saturday afternoon.
“Becoming that convicted felon Donald Trump spent his time at a spiritual convention threatening to spherical up Latinos, bragging about ripping away People’ freedoms, and promising to be much more excessive if he regains energy,” spokesperson Sarafina Chitika stated. “Trump’s incoherent, unhinged tirade confirmed voters in his personal phrases that he’s a risk to our freedoms and is simply too harmful to be let wherever close to the White Home once more.”
The previous president has repeatedly used dehumanizing and inflammatory rhetoric when referring to immigrants and has made stoking fears about undocumented immigrants crossing the US-Mexico border a central a part of reelection marketing campaign. He stated at a marketing campaign rally in Ohio in March that he thought some undocumented migrants have been “not individuals,” and weeks later stated he thought undocumented migrants who commit violent crimes are “not people” and as an alternative “animals.”
Trump used language usually employed by White supremacists and nativists when he claimed in an interview final 12 months that undocumented immigrants have been “poisoning the blood of our nation.” The Biden marketing campaign drew a hyperlink between the feedback and Adolf Hitler, who wrote concerning the “contamination of the blood” or “blood poisoning” in “Mein Kampf.”
The previous president repeatedly claims with out proof that different nations are sending “prisoners, murderers, drug sellers, psychological sufferers and terrorists” to the US. At his marketing campaign rallies, he spotlights violent crimes dedicated by undocumented immigrants as he bashes Biden’s dealing with of safety on the border.
As president, Trump took steps to curb each unlawful and authorized immigration, focusing on visa applications and in search of to limit refugee resettlements. He additionally quickly banned journey from seven Muslim-majority nations whereas in workplace. Throughout his 2024 marketing campaign, Trump has vowed to perform the “largest home deportation operation in American historical past” to fight what he claims is an “invasion of our nation.”
This story has been up to date with further developments.