When Did Trump Say Immagrents Were Animals?

President Donald Trump listens during a roundtable on immigration policy in California, in the Cabinet Room of the White House, on Wednesday. Evan Vucci/AP hide caption

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President Donald Trump listens during a roundtable on immigration policy in California, in the Cabinet Room of the White House, on Wednesday.

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Updated May xviii

President Trump, speaking on Wednesday to a gathering of officials from California who oppose the state's "sanctuary" law, compared some people who illegally cross the U.S. southern edge to "animals."

During a White Firm roundtable discussion with law enforcement officials and political leaders, Fresno County Sheriff Margaret Mims expressed frustration that a California police signed last yr by Gov. Jerry Brown forbids informing U.Due south. Customs and Immigration Enforcement of undocumented immigrants in the country's jails, fifty-fifty if constabulary believe they are role of a gang.

"There could be an MS-13 member I know about — if they don't reach a sure threshold, I cannot tell Ice nearly it," Mims said.

Trump'south response: "We have people coming into the land — or trying to come in, we're stopping a lot of them — but we're taking people out of the country, you lot wouldn't believe how bad these people are. These aren't people. These are animals," the president said.

As the remark drew criticism and sparked a contend over which people Trump meant to include within the telescopic of his remarks, advisor to the president Kellyanne Conway said people had "rushed to judgment."

Conway added that both the president and people who have lost loved ones to gang violence are owed an apology.

Others who rushed to judgment to get the President rather than to become the story owe @POTUS - and the grieving loved ones who have lost family members to gang violence - an apology. https://t.co/vLU4SgKpux
— Kellyanne Conway (@KellyannePolls) May 17, 2018

On Thursday, the White Firm clarified the comment. Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said Trump was "very clearly referring to MS-13 gang members who enter the land illegally and whose deportations are hamstrung past our laws."

When asked most the annotate, Trump himself said "I'm referring and you lot know I'one thousand referring to the MS-13 gangs that are coming in. I was talking nearly the MS-13. And if you wait a little scrap further on in the tape yous'll run across that. And so I'm actually surprised that you're asking this question 'cause nearly people got it right."

"MS-13, these are animals," he connected Thursday. "They're coming into out state, we're getting them out. They come in again, nosotros're getting them out. We need strong immigration laws. ... We have laws that are laughed at on immigration. So when the MS-13 comes in, when the other gang members come into our country, I refer to them as animals and guess what? I ever will."

At Wednesday's outcome, the president thanked attendees at the roundtable who he said had "bravely resisted California's mortiferous and unconstitutional sanctuary country laws."

"[The] release of illegal immigrant criminals, drug dealers, gang members and violent predators into your communities" and providing "safe harbor to some of the most fell and violent offenders on earth," the president said.

Gov. Brownish tweeted out later that the president "is lying on immigration, lying about criminal offense and lying most the laws of CA."

🤥 @realDonaldTrump is lying on immigration, lying about offense and lying about the laws of CA. Flying in a dozen Republican politicians to flatter him and praise his reckless policies changes zip. We, the citizens of the fifth largest economic system in the globe, are non impressed.
— Jerry Brownish (@JerryBrownGov) May 16, 2018

Every bit The Associated Printing notes, "Brown insists the legislation, which took effect January. ane, doesn't forestall federal clearing officials from doing their jobs. But the Trump administration has sued to opposite it, calling the policies unconstitutional and dangerous. Some counties, including San Diego and Orange, accept voted to support the lawsuit or passed their own anti-sanctuary resolutions."

Despite evidence to the contrary, Trump has repeatedly insisted that illegal immigration to the U.S. is contributing to a moving ridge of law-breaking. During the 2016 entrada, he famously referred to immigrants from Mexico as "bad hombres" and said nearly were "drug dealers, criminals, rapists."

Citing one study conducted by 4 universities, The New York Times wrote in March that data prove, "a large majority of the [metropolitan] areas have many more immigrants today than they did in 1980 and fewer fierce crimes. The Marshall Projection extended the study's data upwardly to 2016, showing that crime fell more often than it rose even as immigrant populations grew almost across the board."

According to the Times, "In 136 metro areas, well-nigh 70 pct of those studied, the immigrant population increased between 1980 and 2016 while crime stayed stable or vicious. The number of areas where crime and clearing both increased was much lower — 54 areas, slightly more than a quarter of the total. The ten places with the largest increases in immigrants all had lower levels of crime in 2016 than in 1980."

Source: https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/05/17/611877563/during-roundtable-trump-calls-some-unauthorized-immigrants-animals

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