Trump's already harsh rhetoric on migrants is turning darker as...

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

68% : But with rolls of insulated building materials as a backdrop and workers in the audience, Trump spent the first 25 minutes of the speech on Sept. 27 railing about border security and migrants streaming into the country.
50% : "These are people at the highest level of killing that cut your throat and won´t even think about it the next morning," Trump told the crowd.
41% : "His rhetoric is becoming more cruel, more dehumanizing, with the goal of stirring anger and hate," said Vanessa Cardenas, executive director of America´s Voice, an advocacy group that backs immigration reform.
40% : 'BLIGHTED REFUGEE CAMPS'As recently as August, Trump was content to describe border-crossers as "killers" or "terrorists," in a more generalized way.
39% : Daniel Treisman, a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, who has analyzed Trump´s speeches dating back to 2015, said there has been a "long upward trend" toward Trump embracing a more violent vocabulary since he first ran for president in the 2016 election.
38% : Trump earlier this year helped sink a bipartisan bill in Congress that would have fortified security at the border.
36% : Immigrant rights advocates say Trump is also increasingly scapegoating immigrants for a host of the nation´s ills, from unemployment to access to medical care to overcrowding in schools to housing affordability.
32% : Trump, who draws much of his support from non-college educated white males, has also spent the past few months laying the groundwork for blaming a loss in the election on non-citizens voting in large numbers - something that is illegal and for which there is little evidence.
27% : At a rally in the small Wisconsin town of Prairie du Chien last weekend, Trump suggested migrants want to "rape, pillage, thieve, plunder and kill" the nation´s citizens and that they would "walk into your kitchen, they´ll cut your throat.
24% : "In doing so, Trump also has blurred the distinction between legal and illegal immigration.
24% : But rather than offering them as anecdotes, Trump has falsely asserted the episodes are proof that all migrants pose a threat.
23% : He has often cast immigrants in the country legally - such as much of the Haitian population of Springfield, Ohio, whom Trump falsely accused last month of eating household pets in what has been a longstanding racial stereotype - as pariahs who must be removed.
22% : At rallies, Trump has largely detailed crimes against mostly young, often white, women, which is built upon ahistorical tropeof dangerous men of color.
21% : Trump has for years portrayed migrants as invaders and criminals, and during his 2017-2021 presidency took stringent steps to curb legal and illegal migration from around the world.
20% : In the final weeks of the election campaign, Trump is increasingly resorting to darker and more violent language about illegal immigration at the southern U.S. border with Mexico, an issue that opinion polls show resonates with many voters, especially Republicans.
19% : "The Trump campaign did not respond to questions on what evidence Trump had to support those statements.

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