OXEN HILL, Md.—President Donald Trump slammed left-wing politicians for sending the American navy overseas as an alternative of defending the southern border.
“After years of politicians using our military to defend foreign borders while leaving our country defenseless, helpless, we deployed a group of people, active duty troops, to defend our border and repel the invasion of our country,” Trump mentioned on Saturday on the Conservative Political Motion Convention simply outdoors of Washington, D.C.
He known as unlawful immigration an “invasion,” including that his first time period had “great” deportation numbers, however his second time period has topped them.
“We’ve never had numbers like this,” he mentioned. “We’ve done it all in four weeks.”
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Trump mentioned that on Day One, he ended “catch and release” on the border, reinstated the Stay in Mexico coverage, and ended birthright citizenship.
Catch and launch is a course of the Biden administration used the place it could catch individuals illegally crossing the border and launch them into the USA relatively than deporting them instantly. Stay in Mexico is a coverage from the primary Trump administration the place immigrants in search of asylum in the USA apply for asylum and anticipate a willpower on their declare whereas staying in Mexico relatively than coming to the USA and ready right here—a wait that may final for years.
“Over the past few weeks, we’ve begun the largest deportation operation in American history—larger even than President Dwight D. Eisenhower,” Trump mentioned. “Very moderate man, but he was very strong that he didn’t like people running into our country and taking over our country.”
Trump mentioned he, too, couldn’t stand seeing “people come in from jails, mental institutions, and the worst criminals on the street, gang members being dropped off in buses and bussed into our country.”
Deporting unlawful immigrants is “liberating” to communities like Aurora, Colorado, and Springfield, Ohio, “that have been occupied by illegal alien criminals from all over the world,” the president mentioned.
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“We’re rescuing the Americans whose jobs have been stolen, whose wages have been robbed, and whose way of life has been absolutely destroyed,” he mentioned. “And under the Trump administration, our country will not be turned into a dumping ground. We’re not going to do it.”
International international locations are taking their unlawful immigrants again, Trump mentioned, together with international locations like Venezuela and Columbia, which initially refused.
Trump celebrated designating as a terrorist group the violent Venezuelan prison gang Tren de Aragua, which has been infiltrating the USA.
“The only thing good about them is they make our criminals look like nice people,” he mentioned.
Syndicated with permission from The Every day Sign.
