Former President Donald Trump told Hispanic voters Wednesday that they must “love our country” to allow immigrants into the country under his administration.
Trump, 78, didn't mince words about the immigration crisis and support for continued legal immigration during a pitch to undecided Hispanic voters at a Miami City Hall event. expressed.
“We want workers, we want them to come, but they have to come legally,” the former president said at a forum hosted by Univision and broadcast in Spanish.
“They have to love our country. They have to love you, they have to love our people,” Trump said if the former president wins in November. spoke to a 64-year-old California farmer concerned about the continued availability of labor and food prices.
“The problem with this administration is that they are completely out of control,” he added.
President Trump claimed that illegal border crossings have skyrocketed under the Harris-Biden administration, putting Hispanics in a dangerous position.
“Many of the jobs you and others have are being taken by people coming in, especially African-Americans and Hispanics, as millions of people come in. I'm losing my job right now,” the Republican candidate said.
“They're coming in, but the majority of them are coming in in huge numbers from psychiatric hospitals,” Trump claimed.
“They're emptying the prisons,” he continued. “Their prisons come into our country from Venezuela, but they have people from all over the world, not just South America.”
“Nobody wants that to happen,” Trump told farmers. “And that doesn't include terrorists.”
“We need great people to come to our country,” he argued.
“I want them to participate more than you do, and I'm going to make sure people can come into our country legally.”
Vice President Kamala Harris has a 19 percentage point lead over Mr. Trump (56% to 37%) among likely Hispanic voters, according to a New York Times/Siena College poll released earlier this week. It makes a difference.
But among Hispanic men, Ms. Harris has only a 3-point advantage over Mr. Trump (48% to 45%).
The poll results show a significant decline from the level of support Hispanics gave Democrats in past election cycles.
