The Republican precandidate for the White House, Donald Trump, accused migrants this Saturday (24) of “killing” the United States and promised again that he would put an end to the “invasion” when he wins the presidential elections in November should win “with mass deportation.
“It will be the largest deportation in our country’s history and we have no choice. That's not a nice thing to say and I hate saying it. These clowns in the media will say, 'Oh, he's so bad.' No no. They are killing our country, they are killing our people, we have no choice,” he said during the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), held on the outskirts of Washington.
The migration crisis is one of the central issues of the election campaign, expected to be between Republican former President Trump, 77, and Democratic President Joe Biden, 81, who conservatives accuse of not doing enough to remedy the situation.
The former president again drew a parallel between migrants and crime, as he did before when he was running for the election and running the White House for the first time.
“Migrant Crime”
“It took longer than I thought, but I saw it coming. It’s called migrant crime,” he said, citing a term he coined. “It's much deadlier than anyone thought. In fact, they will fight with the police in the middle of the street,” he added. “It will be more serious than violent crime and crime as we know it, because we have millions and millions of people, and they are coming out of jails and prisons,” he said, again raising the specter of fear of migrants. They come “from psychiatric hospitals and asylums. No, that's not the same. An institution is an institution.” [de saúde] I'm on steroids mentally, okay? It's The Silence of the Lambs, okay? You know. Hannibal Lecter! They are all dumped in our country,” he said.
Hannibal Lecter is the fictional psychopath who became famous in the film “The Silence of the Lambs”. Trump, who has said that migrants are “poisoning the blood of the country,” earning him comparisons to Adolf Hitler, supports resuming construction of the wall on the border with Mexico and the socalled Migrant Protection Protocols (known as “Stay in Mexico”) MPP).
The businessman vowed to address the issue upon his return to the White House and take “as draconian measures as necessary” to curb border crossings of migrants and asylum seekers.
“A nightmare”
According to him, the country has become a “nightmare” with Biden coming to power. “A vote for Trump is your ticket back to freedom and your passport out of tyranny,” he said, cheered by hundreds of supporters in red caps.
During the Democratic administration, “the United States was a nightmare,” he said. Trump sparked laughter from the audience as he imitated Biden, whom he describes as “a threat to democracy” and a president “surrounded by fascists.” And he promised those in attendance that November 5th, Election Day, would be “liberation day” for them.
His speech was marked by the usual bitter rhetoric and made several references to an American democracy on the verge of collapse. “Everything will work properly in our country. And again it will work. We are respected around the world,” Trump assured. He then went on to South Carolina, where a new stage of his party's primaries is taking place.