Former President Trump made a campaign stop in Richmond, Va., Saturday ahead of Super Tuesday, a day of primary voting that is expected to seal his bid to be the Republican nominee for president in November.
“This November, Virginia is going to tell crooked Joe Biden, you’re fired, you’re fired, get out of here, get out of the White House,” Trump said in a speech focused on immigration and crime, reports the Virginia Mercury. He cited the recent death of Laken Riley, a 22-year-old University of Georgia nursing student whom authorities say was beaten to death by a Venezuelan migrant, and the shooting death of a 2-year-old in Montgomery County, Md.., in which law enforcement has arrested five suspects, including a Salvador national who was slated for deportation last year but was later released by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
“We now have a new category of crime, you know what it’s called? It’s called migrant crime. And this category is turning out to be worse than any crime we’ve ever had in our country,” Trump said. “I was going to call it Biden migrant crime. But if you do that it’s too long. It doesn’t work.” Trump pledged that if elected, he would “terminate every open border policy of the Biden administration” on his first day in office. “We will begin the largest domestic deportation operation in American history,” he said. “We have no choice. This is not sustainable by any country.” Immigration, he warned the audience, was also affecting schools: “In New York, they have pupils from foreign countries, from countries where they don’t even know what the language is. We have nobody that even teaches it,” Trump said. “These are languages that nobody ever heard of."