Trump has promised to crack down on unlawful immigration.
Durham, New Hampshire:
Donald Trump, the Republican presidential frontrunner, mentioned on Saturday that undocumented immigrants have been “poisoning the blood of our nation,” repeating language that has beforehand drawn criticism as xenophobic and echoing of Nazi rhetoric.
Trump made the feedback throughout a marketing campaign occasion in New Hampshire the place he railed in opposition to migrant crossings on the US-Mexico border, which hit new highs in September. Trump has promised to crack down on unlawful immigration and prohibit authorized immigration if elected to a second four-year time period in workplace.
“They’re poisoning the blood of our nation,” Trump informed a rally within the metropolis of Durham, including that immigrants have been coming to the U.S. from Asia and Africa along with South America. “All around the world they’re pouring into our nation.”
Trump used the identical “poisoning the blood” language throughout an interview with The Nationwide Pulse, a right-leaning web site, that was revealed in late September. It prompted a rebuke from the Anti-Defamation League, whose chief, Jonathan Greenblatt, referred to as the language “racist, xenophobic and despicable.”
Jonathan Stanley, a Yale professor and writer of a ebook on fascism, mentioned Trump’s repeated use of that language was harmful. He mentioned Trump’s phrases echoed the rhetoric of Nazi chief Adolf Hitler, who warned in opposition to German blood being poisoned by Jews in his political treatise “Mein Kampf”.
“He’s now using this vocabulary in repetition in rallies. Repeating harmful speech will increase its normalization and the practices it recommends,” Staley mentioned. “That is very regarding speak for the security of immigrants within the U.S.”
In October Trump marketing campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung had dismissed criticism of the previous president’s language as “nonsensical,” arguing that related language was prevalent in books, information article and on TV. Cheung didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark about Trump’s remarks on Saturday.
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