Former President Trump told a crowd Asheville, North CarolinaOn Wednesday, he said that under the Biden-Harris administration, a new category of crime involving immigrants has developed, and it is “out of control.”
The Republican presidential nominee was expected to highlight an economic argument against Vice President Kamala Harris at a campaign event at Thomas Wolfe Auditorium at Harrah’s Cherokee Center. It was Trump’s second stop in the crucial southeastern battleground in the past three and a half weeks since Harris replaced Biden on the Democrats’ 2024 ticket as the presumptive nominee.
Whereas Trump talks about price hikes Harris’s term saw expenses for the average household exceed $28,000 and credit card debt reach an all-time high, yet she made sure to talk about the border and illegal immigration.
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Trump said no country can tolerate what is happening in the US right now as millions of “illegal aliens” are entering the US from unknown countries.
“When I said migrant crime would reach epidemic levels, everybody told me I was wrong, and now it’s worse than that,” Trump said. “It’s far worse than epidemic levels. It’s out of control. We have a new category of crime. It’s called migrant crime, and I think it’s going to become the worst category of all.”
He said that in the past week, some cases have come to light in which migrants have been accused of rape, murder and other crimes.
On Tuesday, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents located and arrested a Haitian immigrant who had previously been released on a $500 bond despite facing charges of raping a child in Massachusetts.
The migrant, 26-year-old Corey Alvarez, allegedly raped a teenager in March at a motel in Massachusetts where other migrants were also staying. He entered the US legally in New York City in June 2023, and was sponsored by someone in New Jersey.
A Nicaraguan immigrant accused of raping a woman this week near a popular Brooklyn beach boardwalk has been arrested. ICE Detainer According to a report, he was charged with this after being arrested for sexual assault, but he managed to get released after reaching a deal with local prosecutors.
According to the New York Post, 24-year-old Daniel Devan-Bonilla had been roaming the streets since June when he was arrested late Sunday night for the alleged attack on Coney Island. new york city It is a sanctuary city, meaning local law enforcement generally does not cooperate with ICE detainers, requesting that the agency be notified before releasing an immigrant from custody and holding them in custody until ICE takes them into custody.
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“Nothing good is going to come from this,” Trump said. “And now it’s getting even more violent.”
Fox News Digital reached out to both the Harris and Trump campaigns for comment.
Still, despite calling the migrant situation “out of control,” Trump told the crowd in Asheville that he has a plan if he’s elected.
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“If Kamala wins, you will get mass amnesty and citizenship for all Biden-Harris illegals who entered our country,” he said. “If I win, you will launch the largest deportation campaign in American history, starting at noon on Inauguration Day 2025.”
Fox News’s Greg Norman and Bill Melugin contributed to this report.