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Trump is increasingly increasing his rhetoric against immigrants.
The main topic of the US election campaign will be the refugee problem under Biden's government.
Vandalia - Former US President Donald Trump stepped up his dehumanizing rhetoric against immigrants on Saturday (March 16) when he said that some accused of crimes are "not human."
“I don’t know if you can call them people,” he said at a rally near Dayton, Ohio.
“In some cases, I don’t think they’re human.
But I’m not allowed to say that because the radical left says that’s a terrible thing that shouldn’t be said.”
Trump on the campaign trail in Ohio – the refugee problem is the main topic
Trump, the Republican presidential candidate, was in Ohio to campaign for Senate candidate Bernie Moreno, who is in a tight race for the Republican nomination against Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown.
Moreno, a businessman, is running against Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose and state Sen. Matt Dolan in Tuesday's primary.
In his own comments on immigration Saturday, Moreno said foreigners coming to the United States should learn English.
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Trump on immigration: There will be a “bloodbath for the country.”
“We don’t need to vote in five different languages.
We learn the language,” said Moreno, a Colombian immigrant who falsely claimed that English was the national language.
“It means that you assimilate.
You become part of America, but America does not become part of you.”
Later at the rally, Trump warned there would be a "bloodbath for the country" if he wasn't elected.
The remark came as he vowed to increase tariffs on foreign-made cars.
It was not clear what exactly the ex-president was referring to with his admonition.
Former US President Donald Trump.
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Biden critical of Trump's statements - a promise of political violence
"Now we're going to put a 100 percent tariff on every single car that comes across the border and they won't be able to sell those cars - if I'm elected," he said.
“If I am not elected there will be a bloodbath for the entire industry.
That will be the least of it.
It will be a bloodbath for the country.” The Biden campaign described the remark as a promise of political violence.
“This is what Donald Trump is: a loser who gets beaten by more than 7 million votes and then, instead of appealing to a broader mainstream audience, doubles down on his threats of political violence,” spokesman James Singer said in a statement.
“He wants another January 6, but the American people will hand him another election defeat this November because they continue to reject his extremism, his penchant for violence and his thirst for revenge.”
Trump's campaign fights back: "He talked about the auto industry and tariffs"
Steven Cheung, a spokesman for Trump's campaign, said Trump's remark had nothing to do with violence but was a continuation of Trump's comments about imported cars.
"If you look and listen to the segment, he talked about the auto industry and tariffs," he wrote in an email, adding that Biden's policies will cause an economic bloodbath for the auto industry and auto workers.
Immigration is becoming a hot topic in the presidential election campaign.
Last month, Trump and President Biden made dueling visits to Texas border towns and blamed each other for the recent surge in illegal immigration.
Trump said the influx of migrants was a “Joe Biden invasion.”
Biden blamed Trump for the failure of a $20 billion bill to increase detention capacity and hire thousands of Border Patrol agents.
Trump's rhetoric has escalated in recent weeks - rejects comparison with "Mein Kampf".
Trump's comments on Saturday represent an escalation of his long-standing harsh language on the issue. Since calling Mexican immigrants "rapists" early in his 2016 campaign, Trump has made inflammatory attacks on migrants a theme in all of his campaign speeches.
In October, he accused immigrants of "poisoning the blood of our country" - a remark that was compared by some to the concept of "contamination of the blood" laid out by Adolf Hitler in "Mein Kampf."
Trump has rejected this comparison and continues to insist on this rhetoric.
He has also promised to launch an unprecedented deportation effort if elected, citing the 1954 "Operation Wetback" in which Mexican immigrants were removed from the country by military means.
“One of my very first actions after taking office will be to stop the invasion of our country,” Trump said Saturday.
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Marisa Iati
is a general assignment reporter at The Washington Post - in that role she has covered the coronavirus pandemic, police shootings, foreign wars, the White House and more.
She has worked for the Post since 2019 and previously worked at the Star-Ledger and NJ.com in New Jersey.
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