Donald Trump calls arrival of illegal immigrants an “invasion of murderers”

The arrival of migrants to the southwestern border of the United States provoked the reaction of former US President Donald Trump who called them an “invasion of murderers and child predators” these statements were issued during a rally in the city of Reading (Pennsylvania), which has a 70% population of Hispanic origin.

“They come from all over the world, but also from South America. They are gang members, drug dealers and thugs… Do you know that the crime rate has dropped a lot in Venezuela because they have sent their criminals to the United States?” Trump said at the Santander Arena in Reading.

Reading is located in Berks County, which voted in the two previous elections for the Republican candidate, within the ‘swing state’ of Pennsylvania, crucial for the 19 electoral votes it provides.

The votes of the 600,000 Latinos called to the polls in Pennsylvania on November 5 will be crucial to tip the balance in this ‘swing state’, which in 2020 leaned towards President Joe Biden.

“Small cities and towns across the country are being invaded, there are a lot of scared people. We have hundreds of thousands of these people coming in and many of them are criminals,” the Republican magnate repeated to an audience that at times remained practically silent.

Since the event was held during the week, attendees came mainly from nearby towns such as Allentown, Lancaster, York or Harrisburg, which make up the well-known Corridor 222 and where the percentage of Hispanic inhabitants does not fall below 40%.

Trump, who was accompanied by Republican businessman Vivek Ramaswamy at this event, also passed over other recurring themes in his campaign such as hydraulic fracturing (‘fracking’).

In the state where the first profitable oil well in US history appeared in the mid-19th century, Trump assured that his Democratic opponent, Kamala Harris, would end fracking “in the first 24 hours” of his hypothetical government.

“Democrats say they like fracking, but they don’t. Ending hydraulic fracturing would be ending Pennsylvania,” he said of Pennsylvania, which decades later would become a bastion of steel and coal, finally dismantled in the 1970s by a relentless process of deindustrialization.

In addition, Trump promised to lower electricity prices by up to half in his first year of government if he returns to the White House.

On the other hand, he used some of his most used trump cards, blaming the Biden Administration and the Democrats for influencing American children to consider undergoing hormone treatments or gender transition operations.

“What do you think about your children going to school and when you pick them up, instead of being him, you want to be her?” he asked in a county with strong religious roots.

Most analysts agree that the candidate who wins in Pennsylvania during the presidential elections in November will reach the Oval Office.

According to a survey published by The New York Times today, Democrats and Republicans spent 180 and 170 million dollars, respectively, on campaign ads in Pennsylvania alone from January 1 to this Wednesday.

Donald Trump calls arrival of illegal immigrants an “invasion of murderers”