Former President
Donald Trump said at a Saturday rally that, if elected in November, he would move quickly to fix a host of problems plaguing the country, including using executive power to free Jan. 6 “hostages” and ending every single “open border policy of the Biden administration” on day one after taking office. The former president opened his March 16 rally in Dayton, Ohio, with a standing salute to Jan. 6 “hostages,” while a recording of the Pledge of Allegiance played in the background. After walking up to the mic amid loud audience chants of “USA! USA!”, the former president praised the “spirit of the hostages,” referring to the people who have been jailed, sometimes without being charged, for their roles in the events at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. “They’ve been treated terribly and very unfairly,”
President Trump said. “And we’re going to be working on that soon, on the first day we get into office,” he continued, while calling the Jan. 6 detainees “unbelievable patriots.” On the eve of the third anniversary of the Jan. 6 incident, Attorney General Merrick Garland promised to press ahead with more prosecutions—and to cast the net more widely. “We have initiated prosecutions and secured convictions across a wide range of criminal conduct on January 6, as well as in the days and weeks leading up to the attack,” he said. Prosecutors have, to date, secured over 890 convictions in connection to the Jan. 6 incident, with Mr. Garland vowing to press ahead to cast the DOJ dragnet widely. “Right now our country’s in trouble. And we’re going to help our country that’s in trouble,” President Trump said. “We’re going to make it great again and we’re going to do it very fast.” Highlighting his recent primary victories that have made him the presumptive
Republican nominee, President Trump turned his attention to border security. He said that, during his 2016 presidential campaign, fixing the influx of illegal immigrants was one of his key agenda items, adding that the severity of the problem at that time was far less acute than it is today. “That border was a tiny fraction of what this border is,” President Trump said. “This is the worst border in the history of the world.” “Millions and millions of people are pouring into our country,” he continued. “Not one more
American life should be lost to migrant crime,” he said, while recalling the recent case of Laken Riley, the Georgia nursing student who was brutally murdered, allegedly by an illegal
immigrant from
Venezuela. “When I’m president of the United States, we will demand justice for Laken,” he said. “On day one, my administration will terminate every open border policy of the Biden administration and we will begin the largest domestic deportation operation in American history.” President Trump has previously vowed to deport illegal immigrants en masse after assuming office. “Nobody’s been hurt by Joe Biden’s migrant invasion more than our great African American and Hispanic American communities ... because they’re taking your jobs and they’re creating lots of problems,” the former president continued at the Dayton rally. He said that the throngs of illegal immigrants entering the country would strain Social Security and impact the lives of retirees. “Your Social Security will be destroyed by the people coming in,” he said. “There’s too many of them. It’s not sustainable.
Joe Biden is costing you Medicare and he’s costing you your Social Security.” At a recent rally in Greensboro, North Carolina, President Trump escalated his criticism of President Biden and the border crisis, accusing him of waging a “conspiracy to overthrow” the
United States by way of record-breaking levels of illegal immigration. “Biden’s conduct on our border is by any definition a conspiracy to overthrow the United States of America,” President Trump alleged. “He talks about democracy but he’s a danger to democracy.” President Trump then suggested that the conspiracy is letting in millions of illegal immigrants, then legalizing them by means of legislative reform and ultimately turning them into Democrat voters with th Similar arguments have been made by people who allege that
Democrats are promoting illegal
immigration to tip the electoral scales in their favor.