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Trump paints apocalyptic image of ‘occupied America’ in immigration-focused marketing campaign rally in Colorado

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Donald Trump painted an apocalyptic image of a rustic “occupied” by hordes of legal foreigners in a marketing campaign speech Friday (11) as he escalated his efforts to make November’s US election a couple of migrant crime wave that isn’t occurring.

With the White Home race neck-and-neck within the last stretch, the Republican ex-president has been dividing his closing pitch between a protectionist financial message and riling his largely white, working-class supporters by demonizing immigrants.

As his Democratic election rival Kamala Harris pledged to work with Republicans to advertise a united authorities, Trump delivered as divisive a speech as he has ever given, wildly exaggerating native tensions and deceptive his viewers about immigration statistics and coverage.

“America is thought, all all through the world, as ‘Occupied America.’ They name it ‘occupied.’ We’re being occupied by a legal drive,” Trump thundered, in an 80-minute look in Aurora, Colorado centered virtually totally on immigration.

“However to everybody right here in Colorado and all throughout our nation, I make this pledge and vow to you: November 5, 2024 shall be Liberation Day in America,” he added, flanked by posters of international suspected criminals.

Whereas the US authorities has struggled for years to handle its southern border with Mexico, Trump has super-charged considerations by claiming an “invasion” is underway by migrants he says will rape and homicide People.

Aurora was the scene of a viral video displaying armed Latinos rampaging via an residence block that spurred sweeping, false narratives concerning the city being terrorized by Latin American migrants.

Smearing Harris as a “legal,” the convicted felon mentioned falsely that Venezuelan gangs in Colorado had been given permission to shoot police, and spoke darkly of an “enemy from inside” that he mentioned was an even bigger menace than any international adversary.

Trump vowed to sort out migrant gangs utilizing the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 — which permits the federal authorities to spherical up and deport foreigners belonging to enemy international locations — as a part of a mass deportation drive he christened “Operation Aurora.”

Violent crime, which spiked beneath Trump, has fallen in yearly of President Joe Biden’s administration. Migrants commit fewer crimes proportionately than the native inhabitants, although international suspects have been named in a couple of high-profile circumstances of violent assaults on ladies and kids, infuriating Republicans.

Encounters with unlawful immigrants on the southern border at the moment are about the place they have been in 2020, the final 12 months of Trump’s presidency, after peaking at a file 250,000 for the month of December 2023.

Left-leaning foyer group ProgressNow Colorado rejected “Trump’s racist lies about Aurora” in a press release calling the rally “an enormous strategic blunder” for his marketing campaign.

Harris, campaigning in Scottsdale, Arizona, supplied a marked distinction to Trump as she pushed a message of unity, pledging to institute a “bipartisan council of advisors” along with having a Republican in her cupboard.

“Within the final a number of years in our nation there are some highly effective forces which can be making an attempt to divide us as People, would cheer us on if we level fingers at one another,” she mentioned, including: “We have now extra in frequent than what separates us.”

With lower than 4 weeks to the November 5 election, polls present a race too near name. The newest Wall Road Journal ballot Friday gave Harris slim leads in 4 of the seven swing states, however all the important thing contests are inside the margin of error.

Aurora’s police division advised AFP it had solely remoted reviews of exercise within the metropolis by the Venezuelan avenue gang known as Tren de Aragua, whereas the Republican mayor, Mike Coffman, known as Trump’s claims “grossly exaggerated.”

Trump has equally promoted the fictious story that Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio, are consuming residents’ pets. In Aurora, he repeated his menace to deport the group, which is in Ohio legally, saying they “have to return the place they got here from.”

Trump moved on to Nevada for a second rally within the playing hub of Reno, the place he pushed most of the similar deceptive, inflammatory immigration claims, though he led with the economic system, a difficulty the place his benefit over Harris has been eroded.

Nevada — the place Las Vegas is situated — has a big service business and Trump touted his “no tax on ideas” coverage, incomes cheers.



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