Former President Donald Trump claimed Wednesday that migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border bring contagious diseases with them.
“They come as terrorists. There are a lot of terrorists coming and people with very contagious diseases,” Trump said Wednesday night in an interview with New York radio station WABC.
“You know, like you suddenly see that there is a race against tuberculosis. There is a bullfight about things we haven’t talked about for years in this country,” she added.
Trump made similar claims in September across the southern border when he said in an interview with The National Pulse that illegal immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country.”
He repeated the claim in December at a rally in New Hampshire. “It is something very sad for our country. They are poisoning the blood of our country. It is very bad and people come with illnesses. People come with everything possible to have,” she said.
In Wednesday’s interview, Trump once again alleged that migrants crossing the border and entering the United States speak unknown languages.
Speaking Saturday at the National Rifle Association’s annual convention, Trump said that if he were the leader of a South American country, he would send criminals and prisoners to the United States “faster than they do.”
“Those in South America who are sending all their criminals, prisoners and gangs to our country, smartly,” Trump said. “I would do the same if I were there. I would do the same. “I would do it faster than them.”
