Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) electrified caucus attendees in Iowa on Monday with an impassioned speech praising former President Trump and encouraging voters to caucus for him. , called for Trump to be re-elected in 2024.
The congressman focused on immigration policy in his policy Speech in Boone, Iowavowed to support her and Trump's “mass deportation” if he is re-elected.
“We must fight to have secure borders, and President Trump will do just that, starting mass deportations on day one,” she said to thunderous applause. “And I can't wait to see it happen.”
President Trump has doubled down on his harsh anti-immigration rhetoric during the 2024 campaign, pledging to launch the largest deportation campaign in U.S. history if re-elected, and using increasingly authoritarian rhetoric around the issue. ing.
The former president has said that immigrants are “contaminating the blood of our country,” a sentiment that has proved popular with his base, despite critical comparisons to Nazi rhetoric. It has been proven.
He also pledged to reinstate and expand a travel ban targeting Muslim countries that was condemned as racist and xenophobic by civil rights groups when it was first introduced in 2017, as well as bans on birthright citizens. He also promised to abolish the rights.
Greene, one of President Trump's most vocal supporters in Congress, called immigrants “terrorists” in a speech Monday and directly compared them to Hamas extremists.
“They are in our country, and I have no doubt that many of them are terrorists who are trying to attack our country here, just as Israel was attacked there by Hamas terrorists,” she said. Told.
Trump easily won the Iowa caucuses on Monday.
“The people of Iowa sent a clear message tonight that Donald Trump will be the next Republican presidential nominee. It's time to make him the next president of the United States,” said Make America, a pro-Trump super PAC.・Alex Pfeiffer, communications director for Great Again, said in a statement after the Iowa campaign was called.
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