Trump Rips Democrats: ‘A Coalition of Open Borders Extremists… that Don’t Mind Crime’
TRUMP: "Thank you very much. Today I sent a letter to state and local leaders across our nation, asking them to pledge their full support and cooperation with the officers and agents of ICE and CBC. Sadly, in recent months, incredibly, I have to say, incredibly, a coalition of open borders extremists, and to me that means crime, people that don’t mind crime — they mind it when it happens to them. They don’t mind it when they have to watch it on television. Have waged an unprecedented assault on American law enforcement, our greatest people , threatening ICE and border patrol for performing their duties admirably, and for defending our country from horrible people and horrible, horrible events and crimes. In major cities across the nation, these open border radicals have blocked access to ICE buildings, defaced public property and threatened public safety. And what you hear in the newspapers and on the news is nothing compared to the way it really is, and we are stopping it very, very strongly. But that you have to go through what you are going through and for you having to be demeaned by people who have no idea what strength is, is really very sad, and we fight it very hard, and I can to you all of these people right here and all the people in this room, we will never let you down. I will also say, talking about the vast majority, not like 51 percent, I mean like 88 percent, 93 percent, I’ve seen numbers, they are all with you. Just a small group that gets a lot of publicity, because they have no courage, they have no guts, they just have big, loud mouths, and we don’t want to put up with that. I just want you to know that you are loved and you are respected as much as anybody in this country is respected. Last month, the mayor of Portland, Oregon, shamefully ordered local police to stand down, leaving federal law enforcement officers to face an angry mob of violent people, leading members of the Democrat Party have even launched a campaign to abolish ICE. In other words, they want to abolish America’s borders. When you think about it, I’m working on it all the time, they come in, we are protecting borders of other countries, but we don’t protect our own borders. How about that? Spending billions and billions of dollars in other countries, some places we should not even be, to protect their borders, but we don’t even protect our own border. We condemn these shameful attacks on our great law enforcement. Any politician who puts criminal aliens before American citizens should find a new line of work, because it’s not going to work."
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