Former President Donald Trump visited Cochise County, Arizona, on Thursday to tour the southern border. Press ConferenceIn it, he vowed to impose the death penalty on illegal immigrants convicted of sex trafficking.
“We will impose tough new penalties on illegal immigrant criminals, including minimum sentences of 10 years in prison for human trafficking, life imprisonment for child trafficking, and the death penalty for sex trafficking of children and women,” Trump declared. “We will also impose the death penalty on major drug dealers and traffickers.”
Trump also promised to impose the death penalty on anyone who kills a federal or local law enforcement officer.
Trump, joined by law enforcement officers and families of victims of recent violent crimes committed by illegal immigrants, began his speech by blasting Democrats for booting President Joe Biden from the race and installing Vice President Kamala Harris as president, warning that she would be a “Marxist president.”
“I really wish everyone would hear about my suffering.”
President Trump spoke about the Biden-Harris administration’s failed border policies and the manufactured illegal immigration crisis. During the press conference, he pointed to sections of border wall that were left piled up and lying on the ground instead of being installed.
“This wall was built at a tremendous cost,” Trump said. “It just had to be built.”
“It’s sad to see it sitting here,” he added.
He said Harris had “created a deadly plague of immigrant crime” by keeping the border open.
“Since Comrade Harris took control of the border, violent crime has increased 43 percent and rapes have increased 60 percent across the country,” Trump claimed.
He introduced the mother of Rachel Morin, a 37-year-old mother of five who was allegedly raped and murdered by an illegal immigrant in Maryland. Authorities say the man charged with killing Morin, Victor Antonio Martinez Hernandez, a 23-year-old Salvadoran national, entered the U.S. illegally after killing a woman in El Salvador. He is also accused of attacking a 9-year-old girl and her mother in Los Angeles last year.
Morin’s mother, Patty, described the shock she felt when she received the call from detectives informing her that her daughter’s body had been found.
“The reason I accepted the invitation to come here today is because we want to be heard and we want people to take what we have to say seriously. We’re not here to take a political stance, although we do. We’re here because our mothers, our daughters, our children are being taken by criminals and this shouldn’t happen,” said Patty Morin.
“If we continue like this we will become a third world country. I really hope people take my words to heart because it is devastating to lose a child, but when you see the pictures, when you see the body and you really understand what happened to that person, it is even more devastating,” she added.
The mother of Jocelyn Nangaray, a 12-year-old girl who was allegedly raped and murdered by two illegal immigrants in Texas, also spoke at a press conference Thursday afternoon.
Alexis Nungarei thanked President Trump for inviting her to speak about her daughter’s tragic murder.
“She was naked from the waist down, thrown into the bayou, left there and strangled. We believe she was certainly assaulted,” Alexis Nungarei said, “but it’s still very early on, very raw, very surreal. There was no reason for what they did to Jocelyn. There were over 300 detention beds that should have been there because they were being held, but they were released when they shouldn’t have been. Some had ankle monitoring devices attached, but it didn’t stop anything.”
“I really, really, really want everyone to think about how important border control is because so many innocent people are being lost to heinous crimes that should never have happened in the first place,” she said. “So please, please, I really want everyone to hear my pain. Please, please, please. [Trump] He needs to take office.”
President Trump has vowed to secure the border and launch “the largest deportation operation in American history.”
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