Donald Trump has vowed to swiftly deport migrants from Springfield, Ohio, the city at the centre of the controversy over claims Haitians are eating pets.
The Republican candidate said Springfield and Aurora in Colorado, which he claimed had been overrun by criminal gangs, would be top of the list for deportations.
The plans would form part of the largest mass deportation in the country’s history, he told reporters at his golf club in Rancho Palos Verdes, California.
The former president showed no sign of backing down from his claims that migrants had been eating pets in Springfield, despite accusations that his allegations had triggered violence in the city.
He repeated his claims that the migrants were wreaking havoc.
“In Springfield, Ohio 20,000 illegal migrants have descended upon a town of 58,000 people,” he said.
“They’ve destroyed the place, and people don’t like to talk about it, because even the town doesn’t like to talk about it because it sounds so bad for the town,” he added.
“We will do large deportations from Springfield, Ohio, large deportations. We’re gonna get these people out. We’re bringing them back to Venezuela.”
It is unclear why Trump mentioned Venezuela when the migrants in Springfield are from Haiti.
Trump added that he hoped to visit both towns during the campaign.
In the aftermath of his bruising debate encounter with Kamala Harris, Trump focused on her record as California’s attorney general, accusing her of being lenient on illegal immigrants accused of serious crimes.
“As attorney general, she defined child sex trafficking, assault with a deadly weapon and rape of an unconscious person as non-violent crime.
“She put them in a new category as non-violent. Now, as vice-president, she’s facilitated the largest wave of sex trafficking and human trafficking in history, the history of our country by far,” he added.
“While comrade Kamala Harris was attorney general at this state, murders rose significantly. Car thefts went through the roof. Gun assaults rose at levels never seen before, and forcible rape went up by much more than 73 per cent,” he added.
“In 2020 Kamala Harris proudly endorsed defunding the police,” he said.
“Anybody that was even in favour of defunding the police for one month, let alone her entire career, should never be president of the United States.”
Trump also focused heavily on immigration – an issue where he still is outpolling his opponent, linking it to a wave of serious crimes in the US.
“Not only is Comrade Kamala allowing illegal aliens to stampede across our border. But then it was announced about a year ago that they’re actually flying them in. Nobody knew that they were secretly flying hundreds of thousands of people, some of the worst murderers and terrorists you’ve ever seen,” he claimed.
“A president has a duty to keep you safe. Kamala will turn America into a poor, violent third-world refugee camp. It already sort of is we have elections that are a mess, and we have a border that’s the worst of any border ever in the world.”
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