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Inside Trump’s Plot to Send Rapists and Killers To ‘Destabilize’ Liberal Cities

By immigrationprof

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As noted on this blog during his term in office, President Trump took immigration enforcement to new and frightening levels.  He set a particular tone and approach to immigration.  In that vein, the Rolling Stone in Inside Trump’s Plot to Send Rapists and Killers To ‘Destabilize’ Liberal Cities by Asawin Suesaeng and Nikki McCann Ramirez report that “before Ron DeSantis’ Martha’s Vineyard stunt , . . then-[P]resident [Trump] asked his team to take migrants suspected of violence and bus them to blue states and metropolitan areas.”   

The story further reports that “Donald Trump is privately fuming over Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis flying migrants from the Texas border to Martha’s Vineyard, telling confidants the potential 2024 rival stole `my idea’ for weaponizing immigrants.  . . . . In early 2019, three people familiar with the matter tell Rolling Stone, the then-president workshopped a plan to bus migrants suspected of violent crime from the border to liberal metropolitan areas. The plan, two of the sources say Trump explicitly told staff, was to `punish’ his political rivals in Democratic controlled areas.”
 
KJ

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