Trump suggests undocumented immigrants who commit murder have 'bad genes' | CNN Politics

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

71% : Trump has also previously invoked genetics on the campaign trail, telling supporters in Minnesota at a campaign stop in 2020, "You have good genes.
31% : Last fall, Trump said in an interview that undocumented immigrants were "poisoning the blood of our country," using language that is often employed by White supremacists and nativists in comments that drew rebuke from civil rights groups.
28% : And we got bad, a lot of bad genes in our country right now," Trump said.
23% : It was the latest instance of Trump using dehumanizing and disparaging rhetoric as he targets undocumented immigrants and vows mass deportations if he's reelected.
19% : Trump has also spread false conspiracy theories about Haitian migrants eating pets in Springfield, Ohio.
17% : Trump has made curbing illegal immigration a central part of his 2024 campaign message and regularly uses inflammatory and degrading language when describing undocumented immigrants.
16% : In a radio interview on "The Hugh Hewitt Show," Trump again distorted statistics on immigration and crime to attack Vice President Kamala Harris as he falsely claimed she was "allowing people to come through an open border, 13,000 of which were murderers.

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