In a video message posted this week to his personal account on his knock-off social media site Truth Social, Donald Trump accused President Joe Biden of involvement in “murderers” supposedly overrunning the United States, which is not happening.
“As president, I will carry out the largest domestic deportation operation in American history to remove Joe Biden’s illegals and murderers, because that’s what many of them are,” Trump asserted. “They’re from mental institutions, and they’re from prisons from all over the world, from Africa, from Asia, from South America, from the Middle East — all over the world. […] Our country is being overrun by criminals, by murderers, by drug addicts.”
Trump conspicuously did not mention Europe in his list of places other than the U.S., leaving the impression of animosity on the basis of ancestry outside that northern continent. Trump has a history of brazen racism exemplified in his derisive treatment of former Cabinet Secretary Elaine Chao’s last name.
He remains evidently desperate to use isolated, criminal acts by migrants to establish an imagined trend of extensive crime by such individuals… but this falls short of reality. In New York City, where a large number of migrants continues arriving, rates for some serious areas of crime have fluctuated in tandem with new arrivals — not grown astronomically like the scenario that Trump describes. And it’s unclear where Trump is getting the idea that migrants are arriving to the United States who hail in significant number from “mental institutions.”
Republicans in Congress were recently presented with a bipartisan border proposal giving the federal government new powers to close the southern border, but party members voted it down, acting in line with Trump’s public stance. As options for action wither amid Republican capitulation, border security teams remain at work. High-ranking figures involved in the federal government’s efforts have attested to Congress that the border is not “open” and enforcement continues.
