Former President Trump told a crowd in Asheville, North Carolina, on Wednesday that new categories of crimes involving immigrants have emerged under the Biden-Harris administration and are “out of control.”
The Republican presidential nominee was expected to push his economic case against Vice President Kamala Harris at a campaign event at Harrah’s Cherokee Center’s Thomas Wolf Auditorium, marking Trump’s second visit to a key Southeast battleground state in the 3 1/2 weeks since Harris replaced Biden as the front-runner for the 2024 Democratic presidential nomination.
While Trump spoke about how inflation under Harris has cost the average family $28,000 and caused credit card debt to soar to an all-time high, he also made sure to turn the conversation to the issues of the border and illegal immigration.
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Former President Trump told a crowd in Asheville, North Carolina, that the Biden-Harris administration has created a new, “out-of-control” crime he calls “immigrant crime.”
President Trump said no country could tolerate the current influx of millions of “illegal immigrants” from unknown countries into the United States.
“Everybody told me I was wrong when I said immigrant crime would reach epidemic proportions, but now it’s much worse than that,” Trump said. “It’s much worse than an epidemic. It’s out of control. There’s a new category of crime now. It’s called immigrant crime, and I think it’s going to be the worst category.”
Haitian immigrant in Massachusetts charged with child rape and released on $500 bail discovered and arrested by ICE
On March 21, 2024, more than 100 migrants attempted to illegally enter the United States through the southern Texas border. (James Breeden for the New York Post/Mega)
He said that in the past week there have been incidents of immigrants being accused of rape, murder and other crimes.
On Tuesday, agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) found and arrested a Haitian immigrant who had been charged with child rape in Massachusetts but was free on $500 bail.
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Corey B. Alvarez is accused of raping a teenage girl at a Massachusetts motel where he was holding immigrants. (Fox News)
Immigrant Corey Alvarez, 26, is accused of raping a teenage girl in March at a Massachusetts motel where other immigrants were staying. The suspect entered the US legally through New York City in June 2023 and was sponsored by someone in New Jersey.
A Nicaraguan immigrant accused of raping a woman near a popular Brooklyn beach promenade this week had previously been arrested on sexual assault charges and had been in ICE custody, but reportedly managed to get released in a deal with local prosecutors.
According to the New York Post, Daniel Davon Bonilla, 24, had been active on the streets since June before being arrested late Sunday night in Coney Island for the alleged attack. New York is a sanctuary city, meaning local law enforcement agencies typically do not cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention orders, which require immigration authorities to notify them before they are released from custody and hold them until they can be taken into custody.
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A mugshot of David Davon Bonilla, who was charged with raping a woman in New York City’s Coney Island neighborhood on August 11. (Obtained from NY Post)
“Nothing good is going to come from this,” Trump said, “and now it’s getting more and more violent.”
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Migrants on the southern border with Vice President Kamala Harris, who Democrats say has never served as “secretary for border affairs.” (Getty Images)
Fox News Digital has reached out to both the Harris campaign and the Trump campaign for comment.
Still, even as he called the immigration issue “out of control,” Trump told the crowd in Asheville that he has a plan if elected.
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“If Kamala wins, we will provide mass amnesty and citizenship to all Biden-Harris illegal immigrants who have come into our country,” he said. “If I win, we will begin the largest deportation campaign in American history at noon on Inauguration Day in 2025.”
Fox News’ Greg Norman and Bill Melugin contributed to this report.
