September 30 :
Donald Trump expressed his deepest frustrations with illegal immigrants who had perpetrated crimes, particularly against young women, and he ramped up his personal attacks on Kamala Harris. Trump used the terms "mentally impaired" and "mentally disabled" to describe Democratic Vice President Harris in Wisconsin, a key swing state, on September 27, when she made her first visit to the U.S.-Mexico border as part of her 2024 presidential campaign.
Protest banners reading "End Migrant Crime" and "Deport Illegals Now." Accompanying the Republican presidential candidate were posters depicting undocumented immigrants convicted of murder and other serious crimes. Immigrants without proper documentation received an abnormally large portion of his speech. The perpetrators of violent crimes were referred to as "monsters," "stone-cold killers," and "vile animals" by him.
In the run-up to the November 5th election, Trump and Harris are neck and neck. Public opinion surveys consistently rank immigration and the southern border as among the most pressing concerns for voters. Sarah Chitika, a representative for Harris, stated following Trump's address: "He's got nothing 'inspiring,' just darkness."
Some of the undocumented immigrants, the former president said, wanted to "rape, pillage, thieve, plunder and kill the people of the United States of America." He blamed Democratic President Joe Biden and Harris for letting them into the country. Trump did say, "This is a dark speech" once.
Trump delivered his address in the Wisconsin town of Prairie du Chien, where in September an undocumented Venezuelan man was arrested on charges of sexual assault and assault on a woman's daughter. The record-high number of 7 million migrants apprehended for illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border during Biden's presidency has been a source of criticism for Harris and Biden from Trump and fellow Republicans, according to official statistics.
Harris described her goals to repair "our broken immigration system" during her Friday visit to the border, where she also accused Trump of "fanning the flames of fear and division" on the influence of immigrants on American society. Harris has pledged to make the prevention of the entry of fentanyl into the United States a "top priority" and has asked for stricter asylum regulations.
Also, Trump lied again and said that Biden's victory in the 2020 election was fake. When asked about prosecuting those responsible for his loss, Trump stated that he would do it "if allowed" if reelected. Many studies have failed to find any evidence that immigrants commit more crimes than native-born Americans. Critics argue that Trump's statements perpetuate racist stereotypes.
To emphasize this point, Trump usually ignores stories involving male victims in favor of those involving young women who are purportedly murdered by Hispanic attackers. Opponents of Trump claim that he uses the suffering of immigrant families to further his narrative that people of foreign birth, who are disproportionately Hispanic, are forces of invasion.
Some victims' families, however, have applauded Trump for bringing attention to the problem of juvenile violence and the high number of deaths caused by the narcotic fentanyl, a significant amount of which enters the country across the southern border. Prior to Trump's speech on September 28, a number of parents who had suffered the tragic loss of a child to an attack by illegal aliens or fentanyl spoke in his defense.
