Trump Still Calls Immigrants Animals!

Republicans know him. He knew what he said.

Regardless of what the Republicans and far right's "debunking" of Donald J. Trump's Grand Rapids stop, the former president did call immigrants "animals."

He has said it before when he was president and he still continues this dehumanizing.

Rehashing 2016 vibes, Trump continues his "us versus them" rhetoric when it comes to immigration, transgender Americans, President Joe Biden, Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Hunter Biden, Muslims, Christians and every freaking culture war Republicans latched their agenda on.

We had a bridge collapse, tornadoes rip up the Midwest, gun violence and rising costs due to corporate greed. The fact that House Republicans refuse to pass any meaningful legislation is beyond me.

They rather name Dulles Washington International Airport after Trump, continue to give our taxpayer money to Israel and deny taxpayer money to Ukraine. They want to censor TikTok but allow X to continue its bastardization of truth.

Republicans have no real agenda. 

Trump has no real agenda.

The presumptive nominee rather continue his campaign of dehumanizing and scaremongering. His rallies aren't big as they used to be. I mean he is campaigning in Michigan inside a small pavilion 

His handling of the economy, the pandemic and the insurrection should deny Trump another term. His first term was marred with lies, disinformation and constant chaos.

Trump called immigrants in the United States illegally "animals" and "not human" in a speech in Grand Rapids, Michigan on Tuesday, resorting to the degrading rhetoric he has employed time and again on the campaign trail.

The Republican presidential candidate, flanked by several law enforcement officers, listed several criminal cases involving suspects in the country illegally in often graphic terms and warned that violence and chaos would consume America if he did not win the Nov. 5 election.

While speaking of Laken Riley - a 22-year-old nursing student from Georgia allegedly murdered by a Venezuelan immigrant in the country illegally - Trump said some immigrants were sub-human.

The Democrats say, 'Please don't call them animals, they're humans.' I said, 'No, they're not humans, they're not humans, they're animals,'" said Trump, president from 2017-2021.

During stump speeches, Trump frequently claims that immigrants crossing the border with Mexico illegally have escaped from prisons and asylums in their home countries and are fueling violent crime in the United States.

While available data on criminals' immigration status is sparse, researchers say people living in the U.S. illegally do not commit violent crimes at a higher rate than native-born citizens.

Biden blames Trump for encouraging Republicans not to pass legislation in Congress this year that would have beefed up security at the southern border and introduced new measures aimed at reducing illegal immigration.

"Donald Trump is engaging in extreme rhetoric that promotes division, hate and violence in our country," Michael Tyler, Biden campaign communications director, told reporters on Tuesday ahead of Trump's speech.

"He encourages white nationalists and cheers on the disgusting behavior of the extreme far right," Tyler said.

Trump delivered his speech, titled "Biden's border bloodbath" in the city of Grand Rapids, where police said 25-year-old Ruby Garcia was murdered last month in her car by Brandon Ortiz-Vite, 25, who she was dating. Ortiz-Vite was in the country illegally, police said.

The murders of Garcia and Riley have allowed Trump's campaign to simultaneously play to fears among some Americans about violent crime and immigration.

Some 38 per cent of Republicans cited immigration as the country's top issue in a Reuters/Ipsos poll released in late February, as did about one in five independents.

Trump frequently claims without evidence that migrants have caused a spike in violent crime in U.S. cities. On Tuesday, he repeated an unfounded claim that Latin American nations are intentionally sending their criminals into the United States.