Former President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that if elected, his administration would create a reparations fund to provide compensation to victims of immigrant crimes, and that the money would be funded by assets of criminal organizations and drug cartels seized by the U.S. government. announced that it would.
President Trump held an event Tuesday morning at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, featuring mothers of victims of illegal immigration crimes.
“Today, for the first time under my administration, I am announcing the creation of a reparations fund that will seize the assets of criminal organizations and drug cartels and use those assets to provide reparations to victims of immigrant crimes.” President Trump said Tuesday. “And the government will support reparations. But something has to be done. We’re going to get it done.”
Former Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump participates in a Q&A with Pastor Paula White at the National Faith Advisory Summit on October 28, 2024 in Powder Springs, Georgia. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
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President Trump has slammed Vice President Kamala Harris for her role in the growing migrant crisis at the US southern border, saying she “wiped out the border.”
President Trump reminded attendees that President Biden had appointed Harris as “border czar.”
Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at a campaign event at Barnes Park on Monday, October 28, 2024 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. (AP Photo/Paul Sancia)
“She doesn’t want to use that word, but let’s use another word. She was responsible for the border. Totally responsible,” Trump said. “She never called Border Patrol.”
Trump said the National Border Patrol Council endorsed him earlier this month, calling him “the best president we’ve ever had and the best president we’ve ever had on border security.” He said that there is.
“They said she was the worst person they had ever worked with at the border,” Trump said. “The most incompetent, the most inconsiderate. If you think about it, in almost four years, there hasn’t been a single call to the Border Patrol…They’re great people, men and women…They just want to do their job. “She never called the Border Patrol.” ”
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President Trump later released a new video featuring the mother of Jocelyn Nungarai, the 12-year-old girl who was allegedly killed by two illegal immigrants. President Trump described her as “a mother whose life was completely destroyed by Kamala.”
The emotional video included Alexis Nungarai recalling the last moments with her daughter and the painful discovery that she was murdered by two men who were living in the United States illegally. . The men, who reportedly belonged to a gang known for brutal violence, were arrested by U.S. Border Patrol but later released.
“Kamala Harris was the head of immigration and the border,” Nungarai said in the video. “I truly believe that all of this could have been prevented if we had better border policies instead of open borders and catch-and-release policies.”
Nungarai added: “Kamala Harris had one job and she not only let me down, she let my daughter down.”
Nangaray recalled that President Trump first contacted her to offer his condolences, “not just as a former president, but as a father and a caring person.”
Former Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump comforts Alexis Nungaray, the mother of Joselyn Nunagaray, who was allegedly killed by an illegal immigrant at the U.S.-Mexico border fence south of Sierra Vista, Arizona, on August 22, 2024. (Rebecca Noble/Getty Images)
“I believe Donald Trump needs to return to office,” she said in the video. “At least I can know that my next child will be safe in this country.”
President Trump also hosted Tammy Nobles, the mother of Kayla Hamilton, an illegal immigrant from El Salvador who was allegedly killed by MS-13 members.
“Issue by issue, she broke it. They broke it together. But for the purpose of this election, she broke it. We can’t let her go,” Trump said. spoke. “And I’m going to fix it, and I’m going to fix it very quickly.”
Regarding illegal immigrants being “taken out of the country” under his “mass deportation” operation, President Trump said that if they return to the United States, “if they serve 10 years, there will be immediate legislation enacted.” It will be enacted.” If they go to jail, they won’t come back. ”
“And if that’s not long enough, you’ll have to do something else,” he said. “But we don’t want them to come back. They’re not going to come back.”
President Trump also said that if elected, he would seek the death penalty for immigrants who enter the country and kill American citizens or law enforcement officers.
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Trump’s event was held late Tuesday night before heading to Pennsylvania for a roundtable and rally.
Harris is scheduled to deliver a final message to voters in a speech Tuesday night at the Ellipse in Washington, D.C.
Brooke Singman is a political correspondent and reporter for Fox News Digital, Fox News Channel and FOX Business.
