Trump established xenophobia as the pivot of his campaign. usa elections

Donald Trump rocketed his way into the White House in 2016 on the back of xenophobic and racist speech, and he believes this is the best way to regain the presidency after eight years. The Republican candidate has doubled down on the “bad genes” that criminal immigrants are bringing into the country, two terms he frequently associates. Trump has made irregular immigration a scapegoat for all the problems afflicting the United States, without bothering to resort to fraud. This isn’t a new strategy, not even in this campaign, but the former president has made it the pivot around which all of his messaging revolves, whether it’s talking about crime, economic problems or helping hurricane victims. yes. Helen.

Trump devoted himself to spewing lies about the response to the devastating hurricane, including that President Joe Biden ignored the response and that Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, a Republican, was “sleeping” without picking up the phone. Were, which he himself denied. He also floated the baseless idea that the government was leaving Republican-majority areas without help. But the message he has emphasized most is the lie that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is out of money because the money has been diverted to undocumented immigrants.

“This is absolutely false. This is not true. “This is a false statement,” White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre responded at a news conference. His denial was of no use, neither to the agency, nor to the Department of Homeland Security, nor to the “Republican” Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson. Trump continued to lie and take out of context the fact that the first initial emergency aid for those affected is $750 per person, to maintain that that is all they were supposed to get.

The former president had already demonstrated in the debate with Democratic nominee, Kamala Harris, that he does not care whether an allegation is true or not, as long as it fits into his political narrative that Joe Biden’s government is the cause. Immigrants are invading the United States. And are their vice and the cause of almost all evils. Then he said out loud: “In Springfield (Ohio), the people who have come in are eating dogs, they are eating cats. They are eating the pets living there. “This is what is happening in our country and it is a matter of shame,” he said.

Next to Springfield, another city is particularly suitable for the former president’s purposes and was also mentioned in the debate. This is Aurora, a city of 400,000 residents in Colorado. There have been large numbers of immigrants to the region and there are real problems of insecurity and ill health in degraded areas, which in fact already existed before the last wave of migration. But Republicans, led by Trump, have rallied on the back of a deception that fits their purposes like a glove, despite the damage done to the city.

A video showing armed men descending the stairs of a building in Aurora helped Republicans maintain that Venezuelan gangs, particularly the so-called Aragua Train, were violently taking over entire areas of the city. After the flight, interests emerged from the company that owns the three-building complex where the video was recorded and its opposition to its rehabilitation. They found the perfect alibi in Venezuelan gangs and photos of the landing were broadcast in a continuous loop on conservative channels, especially Fox News.

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However, it is also true that authorities are concerned about the activity of the Aragua train not only in Aurora, but also in other parts of the country, including New York. This provides an ideal breeding ground for Trump’s message. The former president has said that if he returns to the White House he plans to begin mass deportations of immigrants, starting in Springfield and Aurora.

The Trump campaign has announced a rally for its candidate in Colorado City this Friday. “Aurora, Colorado, has become a ‘war zone’ due to the influx of violent Venezuelan gang members captured by Aragua train. Neighboring city Denver has been flooded by about 43,000 migrants since December 2022, many of whom have arrived in Aurora, bringing chaos and fear. Their call reads, “Local families have been forced to flee their homes as Tren de Aragua members terrorize apartment complexes with guns, robberies and rampant drug activity.” He added, “Kamala’s border massacre has turned all states into border states, leaving Colorado families at the mercy of crime.”

In a radio interview broadcast Monday, Trump emphasized his xenophobic messages, linking immigration and crime and saying the influx of immigrants has brought “bad genes” to the United States. His campaign later said he was talking about criminals, not immigrants in general. “How about allowing people to cross the border openly, 13,000 of whom were murderers? Many of them murdered more than one person,” Trump said. “And now they live happily in the United States. You know, now he’s a killer… I believe it: it’s in his genes. And there are a lot of bad genes in our country right now.” The figures cited by Trump are for immigrants who have been entering the country over decades, including his tenure.

On Sunday, at a rally he held with Elon Musk in Butler (Pennsylvania), he said that all over the world they were emptying prisons to send their “killers, drug traffickers, human traffickers and gangs.” Member” as an immigrant to the United States. “They’re releasing everybody in our country and they’re emptying their jails,” he said.

A White House spokeswoman on Monday criticized Trump’s comments, saying, “This kind of language is disgusting, despicable, inappropriate and has no place in our country.” The former president has in the past said that immigrants are “poisoning the blood” of the United States, a quote from none other than Adolf Hitler.

Harris recalled Monday in an interview on the show. 60 minutes, CBS Network says his opponent thwarted a bipartisan deal in the Senate to pass border security legislation. “Donald Trump found out that this bill was in the works and could be passed, and he wanted to ride on it rather than fix a problem,” she said. “I think the American people want a leader who won’t try to divide us and tear us down,” he said.