Thursday,
October 17, 2024 - Former US President,
Donald Trump told Hispanic voters on Wednesday, October 16,
that under his administration migrants will have to “love our country” to
be allowed in.
Trump, 78, made the statement to Hispanic voters at a town hall
event in Miami, before expressing support for continued legal
immigration.
“We want workers and we want them to come in, but they have to
come in legally,” the former president said at the forum hosted by Univision
and broadcast in Spanish.
“They have to love our country. They have to love you, love our people,”
Trump told a 64-year-old California farmer concerned about the continued
availability of migrant labor and food prices if the former president were to
win in November.
“The problem with this administration is they’ve totally lost
control,” he added.
Trump argued that the surge in illegal border crossings under the
Harris-Biden administration has put Hispanics in a fraught position.
“A lot of the jobs that you have and that other people have are being
taken by these people that are coming in, and the African American population
and the Hispanic population in particular, are losing jobs now because millions
of people are coming in,” the GOP nominee said.
“They’re coming in, but they’re also coming in largely – in tremendous
numbers coming in – out of mental institutions,” Trump claimed.
“They’re emptying out jails,” he continued. “Their jails are being
let into our country – from Venezuela – but not just South America, from all
over the world.”
“Nobody wants that,” Trump told the farmer. “And that doesn’t include
the terrorists.”
“We have to have people that are great people coming into our country,”
he argued.
“I want them in even more than you do. And we’re going to make it so
that people can come into our country legally.”
Vice President Kamala Harris holds a 19-percentage point
lead (56%-37%) over Trump with likely Hispanic voters, according to a New
York Times/Siena College poll released earlier this week.
However, among Hispanic men, Harris only holds a three-point advantage
(48%-45%) over Trump.
The poll’s findings mark a significant decline from the level of support Hispanics have given Democrats in past election cycles.
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