Donald Trump says newly released statistics from Immigration and Customs Enforcement validate what he has been saying for years: The Biden-Harris administration has allowed convicted murderers and other criminals to run free across the nation.
Speaking at a campaign stop in Michigan, the former president said news media could no longer hide from the fact that President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have turned a blind eye to violent illegal immigrants being released into the country.
“I can finally look at them and say ‘I told you s,’ to the fake news,” Mr. Trump said. “These are hard, tough, vicious criminals that are free to roam in our country.”
“Kamala is directly responsible for the tens of thousands of crimes committed by illegal migrants that she set free into our country,” Mr. Trump said. “She is responsible for every bloody crime scene, every funeral, every orphaned child.”
“Blood is on her hands,” he said.
The House Homeland Security Committee released the data that it had received from ICE hours before Ms. Harris was set to appear at the U.S-.Mexico border. It marked her first border visit as the Democratic presidential nominee and her second as vice president.
Ms. Harris and her team hoped the visit would help her quell voter concerns about conditions at the border, which she has tried to blame on Mr. Trump.
Immigration ranks as a top issue of the presidential race, and Mr. Trump has long made it the centerpiece of his political movement. On the campaign trail, he regularly faults the Biden-Harris administration for inheriting a secure border and then making an absolute mess of it by unwinding his policies and adopting a more lenient approach.
On Friday, Mr. Trump said that the fresh stats released on Friday proved that Ms. Harris “doesn’t know what the hell she is doing.”
Mr. Trump, however, said the fresh statistics prove that Ms. Harris is responsible for the mess and “doesn’t know what the hell she is doing.”
“Nobody who is allowed this to happen to our country is fit to be president of the United States,” he said. “She should resign in disgrace for what she has done to our country, not run for president.”
“She was the border czar, right?” Mr. Trump said.
ICE reported at least 660,000 criminal illegal immigrants who have been released into the U.S., including over 13,000 convicted murderers and over 25,000 convicted of rape, sexual assault and other sex offenses.
“This is bad timing for Kamala to show up at the border,” Mr. Trump said. “She didn’t go there for four years, and today she shows up, and these numbers get released.”
“Somebody doesn’t like her, I think,” he said.
• Seth McLaughlin can be reached at smclaughlin@washingtontimes.com.
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