With false or misleading claims, Trump drives his anti-immigrant message in Colorado

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

48% : Trump has repeatedly claimed that Venezuelan gangs are taking over buildings, even though authorities say that was a single block of the suburb near Denver, and the area is again safe.
46% : "Trump announced that as president he'd launch "Operation Aurora" to focus on deporting members of the transnational Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, or TDA.
46% : ""Look at all these photos around me," Stephen Miller, a former top aide who is expected to take a senior role in the White House if Trump wins, told the crowd before the candidate spoke.
37% : "I love good ideas wherever they come from," said Harris, who is making a push to get Republicans with doubts about Trump to support her.
31% : She also accused Trump of letting Iran "off the hook" while he was in office and made her case that she would be a greater champion for Israel's security than the Republican nominee.
30% : "Trump and his running mate, Ohio Sen. JD Vance, also have spread falsehoods about migrants in other communities, particularly in Ohio.
29% : Trump has vowed to deport not only "criminals," a promise he shares with his opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, but also Haitians living legally in Springfield, Ohio, and even people he has denigrated as "pro-Hamas radicals" protesting on college campuses.
29% : Trump in an exchange with a reporter this month referred to the injuries as a "headache.
29% : "The Iranian missile attack came days after Trump ordered a strike that that killed Qassem Suleimani, the head of Iran's elite Quds Force, and raised tensions between the U.S. and Iran.
28% : Over the last few months, Trump has pinpointed specific smaller communities that have seen more migrants arrive, with tensions flaring locally over resources and some residents expressing distrust.
28% : Trump has said he would revoke the temporary protected status that allows Haitians to stay in the U.S. because of widespread poverty and violence in their home nation.
25% : ""We have to clean out our country," Trump said, repeating his common and false claims about migrants.
25% : Trump also repeated his pledge to invoke the Alien Enemies Act, a 1798 law that allows the president to deport any noncitizen who is from a country that the U.S. is at war with.
22% : At the venue where Trump appeared Friday, posters displayed mugshots of people in prison-orange with descriptions including "Illegal immigrant gang members from Venezuela.
21% : The crowd roared "no."Some of Colorado's Democratic leaders accused Trump and other Republicans of overstating problems in Aurora.
17% : Trump, who has disparaged immigrants since his first campaign speech in 2015, ignored local authorities' assertions and painted a dire picture.
13% : "Harris charged that Trump "did nothing" after Iran "attacked U.S. bases and American troops.
9% : "The criticism by Harris was a knock on Trump for downplaying a January 2020 missile attack by Iran on a U.S. base in Iraq that left several American troops with concussion-like symptoms, including some who had to be evacuated for treatment.

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