If reelected, Trump has pledged to finish the border wall, reinstitute travel bans and launch mass deportation efforts.

With a border deal hanging in the balance and the Iowa caucuses a month away, Donald Trump amplified his attack on immigrants at a rally in New Hampshire on Saturday.

“They’re poisoning the blood of our country,” the former president said. “They’ve poisoned mental institutions and prisons all over the world. Not just in South America, not just the three or four countries that we think about, but all over the world they’re coming into our country from Africa, from Asia.”

While in the White House, Trump sought to deter immigration by building a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border, building some 450 miles of fencing along the nearly 2,000-mile border, much of which replaced existing barriers. In addition to strict border security measures, his administration also implemented a travel ban for people from several predominantly Muslim countries.

  • Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin@lemm.ee
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    11 months ago

    It’s even worse than that, only 1% of people in America don’t have an immigrant ancestor even as far back as one great grandparent.

    Every single one of his supporters save maybe for some very desperately confused indigenous folks is a hypocrite of the fucking first order.

    • DigitalTraveler42@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      11 months ago

      And I’ve seen video of plenty of instances of MAGA telling them “go back to your own country”, it’s like “motherfucker, this is their country, same as all the Mexicans you complain about”, the entire southwest from Texas to Cali used to belong to these people.

      • Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin@lemm.ee
        11·
        11 months ago

        Not really, the folks that cross the borders and the folks for whom the old north was home are two VERY different groups of people.

        In fact the latter are pretty liable to despise the former for a lot of mostly racist reasons.