During an interview with far right and often inaccurate radio host, Hugh Hewitt, the former, twice impeached, criminally indicted and convicted one term president and GQP’s presidential candidate, DonOLD Trump, suggested immigrants have ‘bad genes’ in latest disparagement of migrants.
“When you look at the things that she proposes, they’re so far off she has no clue. How about allowing people to come to an open border, 13,000 of which were murderers,” he said, referring to the vice president’s immigration proposals.
“Many of them murdered far more than one person, and they’re now happily living in the United States,” he added. “You know, now a murderer, I believe this, it’s in their genes. And we got a lot of bad genes in our country right now. They left, they had 425,000 people come into our country that shouldn’t be here, that are criminals.”
The 13,000 figure Trump cited is misleading. Immigration and Customs Enforcement told Congress in September that there are 13,000 immigrants convicted of homicide living outside of ICE detention, but three law enforcement officials told NBC News that that figure doesn’t include people who were detained outside of ICE enforcement because ICE doesn’t keep track of incarcerations on the state or local level. Two law enforcement officials also told NBC News that many of them crossed the border before Biden was president (including during Trump’s tenure).
