Former President Donald Trump shared more thoughts on immigrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border on Wednesday, this time insisting that they carry contagious diseases.
Trump made his comments while appearing on WABC radio in New York, where he is currently wrapping up his hush money trial.
“They’re coming in as terrorists. Many, many terrorists are coming in, and people are coming in with very contagious disease,” Trump said. “You know, like it’s all of a sudden, you see there’s a run on tuberculosis. There’s a run on things that we haven’t talked about for years in this country.”
This isn’t the first time that the former president has made such accusations. In a September interview, he claimed that immigrants were “poisoning the blood of our country.”
Then in December, during a rally in New Hampshire, he doubled down on his remarks, which many criticized as being familiar to those made by Nazi leader Adolf Hitler.
“It is a very sad thing for our country. It’s poisoning the blood of our country. It’s so bad, and people are coming in with disease. People are coming in with — with every possible thing that you can have,” Trump said.
Other claims Trump has made include claims that immigrants are speaking languages that no one in the U.S. knows. This was one point he brought up again during his interview on Wednesday.
“We have no idea who they are, where they come from,” Trump said. “We have no idea. They speak languages we don’t even know about. We have people with languages that we know nothing about. It’s crazy.”
With the border continuing to be a top issue for most Americans heading into the 2024 election, the former president has continued to hammer home his talking points.
During a speech at the National Rifle Association’s annual convention, Trump hit on several of his points, including his claim that if he were the leader of a South American country, he would send his criminals and prisoners to America “faster than them.”
“The ones in South America that are sending all of their criminals and their prisoners and their gangs into our country — intelligently,” Trump said. “I’d do the same thing if I was there. I’d do the same. I’d do it faster than them.”