Trump Claims Illegal Immigrants Are Bringing Bad Genes Into the U.S.

October 8 :
In a continuation of his earlier divisive statements over migrants contaminating the nation's blood, President Trump declared on October 7 that illegal immigrants were bringing "bad genes" into the US. During a radio broadcast, Trump brought up official statistics showing that 13,000 immigrants in the US were not in federal immigration detention despite having homicide convictions. He was slamming Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris at the time.

Consider the following: 13,000 of these people were killers, and many of them killed multiple people. What do you think about letting them in through an open border? He informed Hugh Hewitt, a conservative presenter, that they are currently residing in the US with happiness. Murder, you know—I really think this—is in a murderer's DNA. At the moment, our nation is plagued by a great deal of bad DNA. The number of illegal immigrants who entered our nation exceeded 425,000.

Trump was assuming the worst about statistics that ICE had released in September. The numbers span decades, including Trump's presidency, and do not include individuals held in facilities other than ICE, such as state, local, or other federal prisons. U.S. media outlets cited DHS data that showed a 75% year-on-year decline in migrant apprehensions in September, reaching a level not seen since the Trump administration, on October 7.

“I don’t generally defend Trump’s words, and even here he drops the 13,000 released murderers falsehood," said Richard Hanania, president of the Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology, a conservative political commentator. Though he is correct that criminal propensity runs in families. He needs to consider the consequences after learning about the low crime rate among immigrants.

Trump has spent a significant portion of his campaign vilifying immigrants, regardless of their legal status, and is currently tied with Harris in national and swing state polls leading up to November's election. At a rally last month, the 78-year-old reality TV star referred to President Joe Biden's border policies as "animals" and suggested that Harris should face prosecution. He further stated that illegal immigrants were out to "rape, pillage, thieve, plunder and kill." "They will walk into your kitchen, they'll cut your throat," stated the man. Falsely accusing legal Haitian residents in Ohio of eating people' pets, he threatened deportation on multiple occasions. As the first convicted felon to run for president, Trump made history in December when he accused immigrants of "poisoning the blood of our country"—a charge that drew similarities to Hitler's ideology.