On Tuesday, March 5, primary elections will take place in 15 states and in one US territory during the so-called “Super Tuesday”, including in Virginia.
Donald Trump and Nikki Haley are fighting to become the Republican candidate in the presidential election and are campaigning intensively in the state. On the night of Sunday Swedish time, Donald Trump gave a speech in the state capital, Richmond.
He spent some time talking about the migrant crisis at the US-Mexico border, linking migration to increased crime.
– We will see “migrant crime”. It is a new category of crime. I wanted to call it “Biden migrant crime,” but that was too far. So we just call it “migrant crime”. It will be far more serious than the crime we see today.
Compare with Hannibal Lecter
The former president claimed, among other things, that other countries dump prisoners and mental hospital patients in the United States.
– It takes place from prisons all over the world. Look at the number of inmates in their prisons. It’s going downhill, because they’ve taken people from their prisons and dumped them in our country.
– Forensic psychology, it’s like mental institutions on steroids. It’s like “When the lambs fall silent.” Have you heard of a fine gentleman called Hannibal Lecter? That’s what’s in psych and that’s what they’re dumping in communities near you.
Donald Trump believes that security around the border has deteriorated since he left the presidency.
– We have not seen anything similar to what we are seeing now. Three years ago, we had the most secure and secure border in American history.
Goes against research
Trump’s claims about migration and increased crime go against research in the field, which shows that immigrants have not increased crime in the United States in the last 140 years, reports The Independent.
“Since 1880, first-generation immigrants have not been incarcerated to a greater extent than people born in the United States,” states researchers at Stanford University, among others in a large study last year.
Donald Trump says that one of his most important issues in a possible presidential election campaign will be migration.
– The central question in this election is whether the foreign armies that Joe Biden has smuggled across our borders will be allowed to stay or be told to go to hell and go home.