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'Turn around, go back home': Trump claims migrants commit more crime than US citizens
Source: The Guardian
'Turn around, go back home': Trump claims migrants commit more crime than US citizens
At rallies for Mississippi senator Cindy Hyde-Smith, president seeks to renew fears of a migrant caravan trying to enter the US
Jamiles Lartey in Biloxi, Mississippi, and Sabrina Siddiqui in Washington DC
Tue 27 Nov 2018 00.19 GMT
At his final rally of the 2018 midterm season, Donald Trump stuck with familiar topics, railing against migrants at the southern US border as potential violent criminals and gang members, and accusing Democrats of intentionally letting them into the US to take jobs and ruin healthcare for US citizens.
The president told a rapt audience of supporters in Biloxi, Mississippi, on Monday night that his message for migrants was simple: “Turn back now, go back home, we will not let you in,” prompting the crowd to erupt into a cheer of “build that wall”.
It was the second of two rallies at which Trump spoke in support of Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith in Tuesday’s runoff election for the Senate. At the earlier event in the north-east Mississippi city of Tupelo, Trump said: “We don’t want those people in Mississippi. I’m sorry,” while describing the migrants as “tough” people.
“Democrats have become the party of caravans and crime,” he added.
He continued in Biloxi, saying that Democrats “want to turn America into one giant sanctuary city for violent criminals and MS 13 and other gang killers”, and accused Hyde-Smith’s Senate opponent of supporting “open borders”.
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At rallies for Mississippi senator Cindy Hyde-Smith, president seeks to renew fears of a migrant caravan trying to enter the US
Jamiles Lartey in Biloxi, Mississippi, and Sabrina Siddiqui in Washington DC
Tue 27 Nov 2018 00.19 GMT
At his final rally of the 2018 midterm season, Donald Trump stuck with familiar topics, railing against migrants at the southern US border as potential violent criminals and gang members, and accusing Democrats of intentionally letting them into the US to take jobs and ruin healthcare for US citizens.
The president told a rapt audience of supporters in Biloxi, Mississippi, on Monday night that his message for migrants was simple: “Turn back now, go back home, we will not let you in,” prompting the crowd to erupt into a cheer of “build that wall”.
It was the second of two rallies at which Trump spoke in support of Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith in Tuesday’s runoff election for the Senate. At the earlier event in the north-east Mississippi city of Tupelo, Trump said: “We don’t want those people in Mississippi. I’m sorry,” while describing the migrants as “tough” people.
“Democrats have become the party of caravans and crime,” he added.
He continued in Biloxi, saying that Democrats “want to turn America into one giant sanctuary city for violent criminals and MS 13 and other gang killers”, and accused Hyde-Smith’s Senate opponent of supporting “open borders”.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/nov/26/trump-cindy-hyde-smith-mississippi-runoff-election-rallies
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