Campaign 2024: Trump embraces harsh immigration rhetoric during Las Vegas rally

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As we have seen, it is campaign season.  And immigration is at the center of the fracas between Joe Biden/Donald Trump  :ast week, President Biden effectively closed the U.S./Mexico border.   As he made clear last weekend in Las Vegas, former President Trump is not impressed.    

Kimberly Leonard for Politico reports that Trump appeared a rally in Las Vegas, “wielding harsh rhetoric about illegal immigration and occasionally touching on his own run-ins with the law. ”  Not far from the Las Vegas Strip, Trump called Nevada a “dumping ground” for unauthorized immigrants and slammed President Joe Biden for unleashing a “nightmare” through his border policies that he argued were “totally destroying” Black and Hispanic Americans.

“The people of Nevada have had a front-row seat to Joe Biden’s evil and criminal obliteration of our southern border,” Trump told the crowd. “It was criminal what he’s done.”

Trump dismissed Biden’s immigration actions last week as a “little plan” that was “pro-invasion, pro-child trafficking, pro-women trafficking, pro-human trafficking, pro-drug dealers and all the death they bring and pro-illegal immigration.” He mentioned violent crimes allegedly committed by unauthorized immigrants.

“It’s weak, it’s ineffective, it’s bullshit what he signed,” Trump said.  The crowd chanted “Bullshit, bullshit, bullshit.”

On the same day he made these comments, the Trump campaign launched the rebranding of its Latino outreach effort, from “Latinos for Trump” to “Latino Americans for Trump.”

Trump has promised if reelected that he’ll carry out mass deportations, end birthright citizenship and reinstitute the Muslim ban.

Trump at one point in his remarks referred to the “Biden crime family.”

KJ