President-elect Donald Trump and “Meet the Press” host Kristen Welker clashed over Trump's promise to deport illegal immigrants in an interview that aired Sunday morning.
During the 2024 presidential campaign, Mr. Trump will focus on the murders of Rachel Morin, Laken Riley, and Jocelyn Nangaray, as well as the struggles that the city of Springfield, Ohio, experienced after the influx of more than 20,000 Haitian immigrants. , highlighted a series of crimes involving illegal immigrants. President Trump said the failure to enforce immigration laws was “unfair” to legal immigrants. (Related: Mayor Tom Homan hints at possible 'jail' for obstructing deportation)
“I think we have to do it, and it's very difficult. But we know there are rules, regulations, laws. They entered the country illegally,” Trump told Welker. “You know, people who have been treated very unfairly, [in] We're going to make it very easy for people to come into this country in that they're valid for 10 years and they have to pass a test. They have to be able to explain what the Statue of Liberty is, they have to be able to explain a little bit about our country, and they have to love our country. ”
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“They can't get out of prison. We don't want people involved in murder,” Trump continued. “In the last three years, we've had 11,000, 13,000, by different estimates 13,099 murderers released into our country. They're walking down the street, they're walking next to you and your family, they're very dangerous. is.”
Mr. Welker claimed that the number Mr. Trump cited was more than 40 years, but Mr. Trump said that 13,099 people convicted of murder were among those who were not taken into custody. He pointed to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement data showing that. Mr. Trump and Mr. Welker also clashed over reports that groups of illegal immigrants were occupying apartment complexes in New York. auroraColorado.
“We have probably the worst gangs in MS-13, and the Venezuelan gangs are the worst in the world. They're evil, violent people. And look at what they've done in Colorado and other places. You see, they're literally taking over apartment complexes and doing it with impunity. They don't care. I'm telling you, they're in the real estate business.”
“Local police say that doesn't happen in Colorado,” Welker said, to which Trump responded, “That's absolutely true.”
Originally Democratic Colorado Governor Jared Polis rejected Venezuelan gang Torren de Aragua (TdA) has taken over an apartment building in Aurora, a local television station reported. Video being aired He claimed the gang's activities were a product of the “imagination” of local leaders. Emails obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation reveal that residents and local leaders warned about TdA's presence in Aurora, but their warnings were dismissed by Mayor Mike Coffman. (Click here to watch the Daily Caller documentary “Cartelville USA”)
CBZ Management, which manages the apartment complex where the video was shot, told DCNF that an employee was assaulted by a gang in November 2023.
Statistics show that since the start of fiscal year 2021, Border Patrol has encountered more than 8.5 million people at the U.S.-Mexico border. released By U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP).
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