In yet another random and meandering campaign address, Donald Trump incorrectly asserted that “nobody speaks the languages” of migrants crossing the southern border into the United States.
He also reiterated earlier remarks that he had made, which were compared to Nazi propaganda.
On Thursday, President Joe Biden and President Trump made competing campaign visits to the southern border in an effort to control the conversation about immigration.
The former president made the absurd claim that “millions of people from places unknown” who “don’t speak languages” were entering the US while speaking from Eagle Pass, Texas.
“Everybody I speak to says how horrible it is, nobody can explain to me how allowing millions of people from places unknown, from countries unknown, who don’t speak languages,” he stated.
“We have languages coming into our country, nobody that speaks those languages. They’re truly foreign languages. Nobody speaks them.”
The official language of Mexico is Spanish. According to 2019 census data, nearly 42 million people in the United States speak Spanish in their homes.
Mr. Trump’s statements about language coincide with reports from border officials indicating an increasing number of individuals crossing the US-Mexico border. Republican-led states have been relocating thousands of migrants to cities governed by Democrats.
In his recent remarks on Thursday, the former president criticized what he asserted is the “Joe Biden invasion,” claiming it has resulted in a rise in “migrant crime.” He directly linked this phenomenon to the tragic death of Georgia college student Laken Hope Riley.
In addition, he asserted that terrorists are being brought into the US from prisons and mental hospitals across the globe, adding, “They’re coming from jails, and they’re coming from prisons, and they’re coming from mental institutions, and they’re coming from insane asylums, and they’re terrorists.”
The remarks gave his December “poisoning the blood” remarks—which drew criticism for evoking Nazi rhetoric—a new dimension.
The former president declared, “The former president declared, “They’re poisoning the blood of the country. That’s what they’ve done … They poison mental institutions and prisons all over the world. Not just in South America. Not just the three or four countries we think about. But all over the world they’re coming into our country, from Africa, from Asia.”
