Aug 26, 2024

Donald Trump Speaks at the Southern Border

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Donald Trump visits the U.S. southern border in Cochise County, Arizona. Read the transcript here.

Donald Trump (00:05):

So thank you very much, everybody. It’s a very sad time for this country in many ways. You had a candidate, I was no fan of Joe Biden, but the way he was taken out was a coup, he got 14 million votes and the person running now got none. She was disgraced, she was figured out by the Democrat voters. She never made it to Iowa. She was the first one out of approximately 22 people that were running for the Democrat nomination, she never even made it to Iowa. Beautiful place, Iowa, but she didn’t. Plenty of people did. And Biden got 14 million votes, she got no votes, and now she’s running against us. The good news is I think we’re winning in the polls based on what I’m seeing. And after the debate, we were winning by many points, as you know, against Biden. They went to see him, they said, you’re losing. You’re not going to win. You can’t win. We’re going to get you out. It was a coup of an American president, and it was done with anger, and he’s more angry than anybody.

(01:16)
And again, I’m no fan of his. I think he was perhaps the worst president. He was the worst president, largely because of what’s happened at the border. He is allowed, in my opinion and in the opinion of the gentlemen behind me who know this better than anybody, much more than 20 million people into our country, many from prisons and jails, many from mental institutions, insane asylums, and many terrorists, and this was when I left. This is a very famous chart now because this chart probably saved my life, but this chart, the arrow on the bottom shows that this was the lowest … this was the last week in office for me because of a horrible, horrible election where I got many millions more votes than I got the first time, but didn’t quite make it, just a little bit short. We’ve got to clean up our borders, we have to clean up our elections, or we’re not going to have a country, but that’s my last week. The arrow on the bottom, you see, as the gentlemen we’re talking, that’s the lowest point in the recorded history of the border.

(02:22)
This was done by border patrol. This wasn’t done by Trump. This was done by border patrol working with ICE and law enforcement. And that’s what we’re going to do. Again, if you take a look, interestingly, at all of the wall that’s laying on its side, that could have been put up in a matter of weeks. It was all set to go, it was all cut out. And if you look at the top of the mountain behind us, it was all shaped, all ready to go, could have been put up in a few weeks. Much of it’s been sold for 5 cents on the dollar. It’s very expensive. I worked with border patrol very closely, we worked Brandon, we worked with all of your people, and we wanted to design something that worked. And we actually had mountain climbers, we even had drug climbers. They call them drug climbers. They can get over a wall, it’s so incredible, with 75 pounds of drugs on their back. They can climb up things.

(03:20)
And we designed this after looking at a lot of different designs and that’s an anti-climb paddle that makes it very tough for somebody to climb. This was the one that they wanted, a little more expensive version, but this is the one that’s a very important paddle on top and it’s called anti-climb. And this was put in here just to shade us because there’s a lot of rough people on the other side. So I figured you’re the media, you want to be shaded. This gets taken off. This is just temporary to shade us from potential hazards. We know about hazards. But all of this wall was built at great expense and all it had to be erected, we just had to be stood up on its end, concrete on the bottom, goes down six feet. It also went down and shielded from tunnels because we went down about as far as it’s practical for them to go down. They build tunnels under walls. We went down pretty deep. We’d go down a lot deeper than the wall. Made it very tough for them.

(04:23)
And we stopped that and we stopped people from coming over. I built hundreds of miles of this, by the way, as far as the eye can see. You look at the other direction, as far as the eye can see, and then I’d hear people say, oh, he didn’t build the wall. We built the wall. We built much more than I was anticipated to build and we were going to build an extra 200 miles, much of this is that, which is much more than I said I was going to do, because as we built it, they would go around the edges, so we were going further and further out. And it worked. We had the best numbers ever, and we had them largely because of the wall, and also because the Mexican military helped us, which they never helped. At any time, they never helped. And we were very proud of it. So we went from the best numbers in recorded history to the worst numbers in recorded history or any other history.

(05:16)
And we have a Marxist that’s running and this country is not ready for a Marxist president. She will never build the wall. She doesn’t want to build the wall. If she changes her mind, it’s only because she wants to get elected, because who wouldn’t want to have a strong border? You need strong borders and strong elections, and we have neither, but we’re going to have very strong borders and we’re going to have very strong elections soon. The people are fed up. It’s common sense, the people are just fed up. And you saw it, everybody coming from the airport saw the thousands and thousands of people lined up. It looked like Lindbergh coming in from what he did at the time, Broadway. It was amazing when you see all those people, it was a long drive from the airport, and so many thousands and thousands of people. The people in my car said, “I’ve never seen anything like that.” We were in the middle of an area that’s not well populated and have thousands of people like that is pretty unbelievable. I hope you got to see it.

(06:22)
And I hope the press writes this story fairly because it’s a story of disgrace. We had a border czar who was the border czar. She loved the title, but she didn’t want to do the work because she’s lazy and, probably more importantly than being lazy, she wants to have an open border. And you say, who would want an open border where criminals can pour into our country? And all you have to do is walk up there, if you have the courage to do it, and go to that open section, stand there for a little while. You’ll be running back here very quickly. You really have to write this fairly, this story, because you people don’t want to talk about the border, you don’t want to talk about the bad things that are going on in our country. We’re going to end up not having a country. You’re not going to have any media. We don’t have media. They don’t have media. They do their own media. They don’t need media. But you really should cover this story fairly.

(07:13)
Before I begin, I have some, I think, very good words on the border, what to do and how to solve the problem. We had it solved. All they had to do is leave it. Leave it. Just leave it. But before I begin, I want to address the fake job numbers on top of everything else, fellas. Fake jobs. The fake job numbers that the Harris-Biden administration has been reporting for the last year, thanks to a leaker yesterday, meaning probably, in this case, a patriot, they were forced to release numbers. They claimed falsely that they created 818,000 jobs. So they said they did almost a million jobs, 818, 000 jobs that actually didn’t exist. They were phantom jobs. They’re called phantom jobs. The reason they did that is because I was even a little surprised their job numbers look better because I know the economy’s lousy. Everyone here knows it, it’s lousy. These people behind me know it’s lousy. We have the worst inflation, I believe, in the history of our country and that’s absolutely killing people, but it’s 818,000 jobs, almost a million. And these are just the jobs we found out about. There’s a lot of other false things that now are being looked at. That number will increase. So they reported false numbers and this isn’t a revision, there’s never been anything like this, this is a fraud put out by Harris and by Biden. And they were going to release the real numbers, it’s called a revision, after the election, but it got found out before the election. And I hope you’re going to write about it, but it’s a big story, and it’s a story that’s going to be going very far. There’s people very upset about it, including government officials are very upset about it. Even people that are Democrats are, because it’s a pure fraud. When you have a revision, you have a few jobs one way or the other, and they get it straight at the end of the month, but this one was sheltered for a long time and they wanted to release it after November 5th, I wonder why, when it didn’t really matter too much, but even then it mattered.

(09:31)
But so I hope you’re going to report it. Almost a million jobs were phantom jobs. They were fake jobs, just like a lot of reporting is fake, and I hope you’re going to report it because people have to hear it. They didn’t want these numbers to come out and they did come out, and the whistleblower or whoever it was that got them to have to do it, somebody today, a high official said, ” well, we don’t really believe those numbers because Trump gave them.” I didn’t give them. I got them from the administration, from the Labor Bureau, and these are the stats that were just let out officially. I mean, they just came out. They were officially released. Those are official numbers. Has nothing to do with me. I just happened to be playing the role of a reporter for a change, but I hope you’re going to do something with it because I think it’s a serious thing. But it’s the same as everything else. And I’m so glad that we decided to do this.

(10:36)
It’s a little dangerous to do. I hate to tell you, you guys are in danger with the kind of weaponry that we have, but I felt it was important to do. And this kind of stuff that they put up to shield us, I’m going to make you feel not so good, it doesn’t mean a thing compared to what comes through there, but at least they can’t see you, but it’s dangerous territory. And these people have unbelievable courage, the border patrol, ICE, the police, local law enforcement, unbelievable. I don’t even know how they do it. They talk about I was courageous, these people are courageous. They go through this every day, and the amount of horrible injuries sustained in fights and shootings are just incredible. Not reported but incredible. We’re here today on the southern border in Arizona, where Comrade Kamala Harris … I call her Comrade because she is a radical left Marxist.

(11:36)
She wants open borders. I don’t understand why anybody would want it, but she wants our country to be open to the world’s criminals so they can come in and rape, and pillage, and do whatever they have to do. But she’s the most radical left person who has ever run for high political office in our country’s history. And by the way, the governor who’s done a poor job as governor, Minnesota, Walz, he’s done a poor job, very poor job. His numbers are horrible. People are fleeing his state. I love his state. We should have won his state twice, but a lot of hanky-panky goes on there. Hasn’t been won since 1972. Richard Nixon was the last one to win it. But every time I go in there, we have massive crowds and everything’s good, but nobody seems to be able to win it, so I know why we didn’t win it. People don’t like to talk about I., but he’s a horrible governor, has bad job numbers, bad numbers for leaving, a lot of people leaving the state.

(12:37)
And he’s insisted he put a bill, I’m sure the sheriffs would be very happy when they hear this, he signed a bill fairly recently where boys bathrooms have to have tampons. Tampons in boys’ bathrooms. I don’t even like to bring the subject up, but it’s a subject you have to hear about. That’s what he wants. He’s a radical left guy who lied like hell last night, and she’ll lie tonight. We’re doing a review of her tonight on truth because she’ll lie, just like the rest of them lie. They talked about what I said about soldiers. I never said anything. I love our soldiers. They made the story up. It was fiction. We had 26 people countering it, but nobody cares. They made up everything. So many different stories. They made up about Project 25. They’ve been told officially, legally, in every way that we have nothing to do with Project 25. They know it, but they bring it up anyway.

(13:35)
They bring up every single thing that you can bring up, every one of them was false. He brought them up. But they’ve unleashed a deadly plague of migrant crime on our country by not doing their job. And all of that plank and all of that very expensive wall, it’s also got tremendous electronic capability inside, it’s got wires for cameras and everything else that you can have. It’s the Rolls Royce of walls, I can tell you. It’s very hardened steel outside, 7,000 pound concrete inside, and rebar inside of the concrete, all different, all very hard to get through. And it’s sad to see it sitting here. We have crime going on up the road. In this direction, it’s as far as you can see is wall, we have no problem there, but they come in where they refuse to put it up. That was when I first realized that they want open borders. I thought nobody could be so foolish or stupid to want open borders and have the world’s criminal population pour into our country. That’s what’s happening.

(14:46)
But it shattered so many families’ lives and stolen so many incredible young lives. And it’s also really badly hurt our Black population and our Hispanic population because these people are taking their jobs. The jobs now are way down for the Black population and the Hispanic population because we have millions of illegal aliens that have poured into our country. They’ve taken the jobs of African-Americans and Hispanics, and that was obvious to me. Next is going to be unions, you watch. The unions are going to start going well because those jobs are going to be taken to. We’re honored to really be here with these incredible people and in particular with some grieving families. And this is a group of people that I’ve gotten to know, they’re incredible people, they’ve lost a loved one, and thousands of thousands of others are out there, and they are grieving also, but they’re not out with you and sitting in this hot sun. I will say this, that at least it gives us a good reason. We’re doing something

Donald Trump (16:00):

… thing for those incredible people that we’ll be talking about very shortly, because we can’t let it happen to other people. We can’t let what you’re going through happen to other families and you know what you’re going through, as we discussed, nobody’s ever seen anything like it. All for no reason whatsoever. And these are hardened, hardened criminals pouring into our country.

(16:22)
And then they always say, Sheriff, “Oh, the illegal immigrants don’t commit crimes like people that live here.” It’s so wrong. They don’t report them, but it’s so wrong. They make our criminals look like babies. They make our criminals look like babies. That’s about the only thing good. Our criminals all of a sudden don’t look so tough to us. These are the roughest people and they’re the roughest people from all over the world.

(16:46)
Their jails are being emptied from all over the world. Their criminals are being taken from their cities. And by the way, their crime rates are way down. Their crime rates came way down. Venezuela, all of these countries, their crime rates are down. Their prison population’s down. Soon they won’t have any prison population because a hundred percent of it will be in our country with the statement, “If you ever come back, we will kill you.” That’s the statement they tell them. If you ever come back to Venezuela, and other countries, we will kill you. But it’s all over the world. The Congo in Africa, many prisoners let go from the Congo in Africa. Rough prisoners. All over Europe they come, from all over, rough sections, the jails. You have to see jail populations are way down.

(17:33)
So we’ve done a lot of trips to the border over the years and told a lot of stories about border victims, including the stories of the amazing Angel Moms who have never been appreciated. They’re incredible women what they’ve gone through. They’re going through a similar thing. And many of them, I asked about time, but this time because many of them, this took place a long time ago with borders and horrible people coming in, and I don’t have to tell you about the crimes, but the level of viciousness of the crime is unbelievable. But they said, “Time doesn’t heal.” The expression, time heals all wounds. It doesn’t. I spoke to some people, they say they’re worse now than they were 15 years ago.

(18:17)
And this started largely during Obama, and then we stopped it. We had it stopped. And then the first day in, they just said, “We are not doing anything. We’re not doing anything.” And all they had to do is let our people that we had in place, the best people, the best people. I was listening to people like Tom Homan, who is just an incredible patriot, tough, smart, gets it. Good man, but he’s tough. I’ve been listening to all these people. They’ve been friends of mine for a long time. They know it better than anybody. But the level of criminality is unbelievable. It’s an onslaught of violence at a level that nobody’s ever seen before.

(19:04)
For nearly four years, as border czar, Comrade Kamala has overseen a nation-wrecking border invasion. This is nation-wrecking. This isn’t just like, oh, we’re going to fix it a little bit later. Gets to a point where you can’t fix it. She’s allowed at least 20 million people, all illegal aliens into our country, including millions and millions of unvetted fighting-age men from over 158 different countries, 158. Most people didn’t realize you had that many countries.

(19:35)
Just recently, Kamala let in the head of a Peruvian gang who was wanted for 23 murders. Welcome to the United States of America. On her orders, Border Patrol is being forced to free tens of thousands of illegal aliens from custody week after week after week. And these are very violent criminals too. These are the most violent criminals that you’ll ever see. Every day brings another story about innocent Americans being tortured, raped, murdered, and massacred by illegal aliens that Kamala Harris has set free in our country. “Don’t hold them,” they’re told. “Don’t hold them. Let them free. They’ll behave.” Well, he killed 20 people. Oh, but over here it’s different.

(20:23)
Since Comrade Harris took over the border, there has been a 43% nationwide increase in violent crime and a 60% increase in rape. And the FBI should be ashamed of themselves when they report numbers because, in order to keep the violence numbers down, they didn’t report some of the worst cities in the country like Chicago and others. What a disgrace. The FBI did that.

(20:50)
In New York, this June, an illegal alien released into our country by Kamala approached two thirteen-year-old children with a machete in broad daylight in front of other people, forced them into the woods, tied them together by the wrist and raped them over and over again. Over and over again. Two Kamala migrants were just arrested for the rape of a forty-six-year-old woman in Coney Island. I know Coney Island very well. That’s where I sort of started. My office was out there, Brooklyn, throwing her to the ground and raping her with a knife to her throat. One of them had previously been arrested for raping another woman, but instead of being deported, he was released into our country and told to enjoy your life.

(21:45)
In Fort Wayne, Indiana, a woman who was offered a ride home by two illegal aliens was instead kidnapped, held down and raped, then driven around while the illegals discussed how they planned to kill her. They wanted to kill her. They didn’t want to have a witness. And she miraculously escaped by throwing herself out of a rapidly moving car. Was badly hurt, but she escaped at least. Those people came from another country and they were very violent with an unbelievably violent background, violence like you’ve never seen.

(22:22)
In the Bronx recently, an illegal alien who Kamala set loose into the country, approached a 36-year-old woman while pretending to ask for directions before he wrapped his arms around her throat, pinned her down on a park bench and raped her publicly on a park bench. And she said he wasn’t trying to rape me, he was trying to kill me.

(22:50)
In Michigan, earlier this year, an illegal alien broke into a residence and sexually assaulted two young girls, doing tremendous damage to these two young, beautiful girls.

(23:02)
In Virginia a few weeks ago, a 54-year-old mother of four was leaving a convenience store when she noticed an illegal alien trying to steal her car. When she tried to stop him, he ran her down, ran her over, and left her dead on the ground. She was dead. And her family is devastated.

(23:26)
In Texas last month, a Venezuelan illegal alien criminal let in by Comrade Kamala shot a female police officer multiple times with a rifle and she’ll never be the same, and that’s being nice about it.

(23:45)
A few months ago, I met with the devastated family of Laken Riley, a 22-year-old nursing student who was out for a jog on the campus of the University of Georgia when she was assaulted, beaten, and horrifically murdered. Kamala Harris let in the illegal alien animal who murdered Laken. This monster was in Border Patrol custody under very strong custody. They didn’t want to let him go. But under Kamala’s policies, he was set free to kill, and that’s what he did. Kamala let this bloodthirsty killer go free, and then he murdered beautiful Laken, number one in her class, nursing school. Everybody aspired to be like her. She was the best student, the best everything. Beautiful girl.

(24:36)
Then there’s the heartbreaking story of Rachel Morin. And we’re joined today by Patty and Michael Morin, Rachel’s mother and brother. And I met with them. We had lunch. And they’re devastated at a level that nobody can really imagine. Rachel was a cherished thirty-seven-year-old mom, beautiful woman of five incredible children who adored their mother more than anything in the world. They loved their mom.

(25:11)
Earlier this year, while Rachel was out on a run, she wants to keep herself in good shape and she ends up getting killed. In her neighborhood, she was brutally raped and murdered by an illegal alien who was let into America by Kamala Harris and her policies of stupidity. Savage person who committed this heinous crime first killed another woman in El Salvador before walking across our open border. Just walked right in. They didn’t have this then.

(25:45)
He then attacked a nine-year-old girl and her mother in a home invasion in Los Angeles where they were very badly hurt before murdering Rachel in the area where Rachel lived in a very different part of this country. It was cold-blooded murder. Patty and Michael, I would just, first of all, thank you for being here. I know it’s tough, but they want to let people understand what’s going on here because this can’t happen to other parents and sisters and brothers and husbands.

(26:18)
So if you would, I’d love you to say a few words. Thank you.

Patty Morin (26:34):

Thank you.

Donald Trump (26:34):

Take care of yourself. Absolutely. [inaudible 00:26:40].

Patty Morin (26:44):

Hi. I was just thanking President Trump for the invitation to come and to share Rachel’s story. Rachel was 37 years old. She had five children. She worked, she owned a small business. She worked very hard to support her family. And the trail that Rachel ran daily was a trail that we as a family would walk over the last 25 years that we’ve lived in Maryland. It’s a very safe, small trail, very public, very open. Moms with baby carriages go down this trail. It’s very safe.

(27:23)
I was in Kentucky. We had a grandbaby that had passed away when I got a phone call from my son and he said, “Mom, there’s somebody here that would like to speak to you.” And when I said hello, the person on the other end said, “Hello, Mrs. Morin. This is detective so-and-so. I’m the lead detective on this case. There’s no easy way to tell you this, but we found your daughter’s body.” And if they find the body, you know that she’s dead. They wouldn’t say, “We found Rachel. She’s alive.” And so they found my daughter’s body. And when they found it, just recently has come out that she was brutally beaten, raped, and then stuffed into a drainpipe.

(28:26)
We’re 18,000 miles… 1,800 miles from the border. And because of this open border, we’ve had not just my daughter, but we’ve actually had two in the same county that we’re from, where illegal immigrants have come in and have caused rape and murder of our citizens. The reason why I came here today, and I accepted the invitation is because I really want our words to be heard, and I really want you to take to heart what we’re saying. We’re not here for a political stand, although we are. We’re here because we’re losing our moms, our daughters, our children to criminals. And that shouldn’t happen. We should be taking care of our country, our people. And the only way I believe that’s going to happen is if President Trump is re-elected as president, and we close up this border and we put policies back into place that were there before instead of this open border thing.

(29:39)
We’re just going to end up being a Third World country if it continues this way. And I hope, truly I hope that you just take my words to heart because it’s devastating to lose a child. But even more devastating when you see the pictures where you see the body and you really understand what’s happened to that person. So please take to heart, this is a very, very important issue, and it’s one that’s either going to make or break our country. It’s not so much… It’s about America. It’s about Americans. It’s about us taking and protecting ourselves and looking out for each other. It’s about protecting our families.

(30:27)
So thank you.

Donald Trump (30:28):

Thank you, [inaudible 00:30:29]. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Boy, story after story like that. Also with us is Alexis Nungaray and Hormel Guevara, the loving mother and uncle of precious angel, Jocelyn Nungaray. Jocelyn was a twelve-year-old girl from Houston whose life was stolen by two criminal illegals that Harris freed into our country for no reason whatsoever. They were known as monsters.

(31:23)
Two months ago, after walking to the convenience store, these criminal migrants kidnapped Jocelyn, tied her up for two hours, violently assaulted her and strangled her violently to death. Charged with Jocelyn’s wicked murder are two illegal aliens from Venezuela who came across our border. Just walked across like there was nothing to it. Couldn’t do that five years ago, four years ago. They were in Border Patrol custody. They were gotten nabbed and

Donald Trump (32:00):

… and were then released into our country. Alexis, we cannot fathom your pain. There are so many people that are going through this pain, but we pledge to always hold Jocelyn in our hearts. And Alexis, I’d like to have you maybe come up and say a few words. Thank you very much.

Alexis Nungaray (32:25):

So I would love to thank Donald Trump for giving us this invitation to be here and to say a few words, to the staff that’s been so kind to help us in this very hard time. My daughter was just 12. She had dreams to be famous. She wanted to be a famous actor. She was so funny. She was her own personality. And it’s been very hard. It’s been very hard. June 17th was the day her life was taken. She was left with no clothing from the waist down, was thrown in a bayou, left… Was strangled to death. We believe, yes, she was assaulted off of DNA kit that has been… But it’s still very, very early and it’s still very, very raw and it’s still very, very surreal and they had no reason to do anything that they did to Jocelyn.

(33:45)
There was over 300 detention beds that they should have been at because they were detained and they were released when they shouldn’t have been released. One had an ankle monitor, didn’t stop anything. So now, I have to go through the rest of my life with my son, always asking for his sister. And I just really, really, really want everybody to please take into consideration how important border control is because we’re losing very innocent people to heinous crimes that shouldn’t be happening in the first place. So please, please, I really hope everybody can hear my pain to just… Please, please. He needs to be in office and we need better control, we need to stop this. We need to stop losing our littles. We need to stop losing children, mothers, sisters, because now, I get to grieve every single day. Every milestone that hits gets harder because she’s not there for it. She was going to be a seventh grader. She had her whole life ahead of her. Her whole life ahead of her, and it was viciously taken away by two evil, evil, heinous monsters. So thank you again for taking the time to listen to my words. And please help him make a change. Thank you.

Donald Trump (35:31):

[inaudible 00:35:31].

Alexis Nungaray (35:31):

Yeah, thank you.

Speaker 1 (35:32):

[inaudible 00:35:38].

Donald Trump (35:44):

[inaudible 00:35:40]. So Jocelyn is in heaven now, looking down on us right now. And in her name and her memory, we’ll be fighting to protect every American daughter and child. That’s why we’re here because this will happen and has happened by the thousands. There are thousands of people that are in horrible situations like this. As Kamala gives her convention speech tonight, she will not mention the victim, she won’t even talk about them. Although now that she sees us, maybe she will. She’ll not say their names or express remorse to their families. Kamala say she wants to talk about the future. No, these people want to go back to the safe past. We don’t have a future with open borders and all of the other problems this country has, the crime problem. Just like they rigged the 818,000 jobs number, they rigged the crime numbers too. That’s also been a proven fact, just came out.

(36:43)
But she’s stolen the future of Laken Riley and Rachel and our precious Jocelyn, just taking their lives away for no reason. When I left office, I gave Kamala Harris the strongest and most secure border in American history. These people have done an incredible job. They worked with lots of others. And if you came here illegally, you got caught and you were deported or put in jail depending on [inaudible 00:37:15]. Some cases, we’d put them in jail because we didn’t want… They were so violent, we didn’t want to take a chance that they’d come back. But generally, they were deported and brought into countries that wouldn’t accept them before me. With me, they accepted them. They wouldn’t take them back. But with me, they accepted them. I said, “You’re going to have a lot of problems if you don’t.” We ended catch-and-release.

(37:33)
We had remained in Mexico. The greatest policy remained in Mexico. How good was that? Everybody remained in Mexico until they were checked out, and either they came in or not. Most of them didn’t qualify. Title 42, Safe Third Agreements, and 500 miles of border wall that was very, very difficult to even think about getting over, around, or under. The final gaps of the wall were about to be sealed, then Kamala came in and dismantled every single Trump border policy and halted all wall construction. And there it says, but much of it’s been so. This is just a small example of what it was, what it is before they lifted up. So you can see on the ground behind me, the sections of wall that taxpayers paid for a lot of money, but Kamala refused to put up. Just refused. She wouldn’t do it. Everybody called. I even made some calls. I said, “You got to put it up. You got to put it up.”

(38:33)
But she didn’t want it open. She wanted a wide open border. What Biden and Kamala have done to the families here with me and so many others, thousands and thousands of others, not only killed, also really badly hurt. Badly hurt to a point where they’ll never lead a normal life again. It’s shameful and it’s evil. Every year under Harris, a new all time record of illegal immigration has been set. Every single year, our great borders are… She’ll blow away. Biden’s reputation as being the worst president. She’ll be a president that’ll make him look good just like Biden made Jimmy Carter look good. To get illegals into America as fast as possible, Harris has flown hundreds of thousands by airplane. Then they say, “Oh, well, we didn’t want them to go.” But then we found out a few months ago that they’re flying them in over the border by airplanes to all over our country. Well, that means they do want them to come in and fly in some very dangerous people.

(39:37)
It’s close to a million people, we think. Close to a million people were flown in over the border and she’s trying to say, “Well, we’re in favor borders.” She just started this a short while ago. She’s even launched a smartphone program that gives fast pass entry to thousands of illegal immigrants all coming very quickly. You use the smart pass and you get immediate access into our country. Can you believe this? And then they’re trying to say, “We believe in borders.” They’re flying right over our heads, right into the middle states. All over, every border. And you’ve heard this, every border, you look at the different states and put another way, every state is the border state now when you think about it, because they just come right past here and they start… They get taken to other states that never even thought of a problem like this. And those are not happy campers. According to a new DHS report, Kamala Harris also lost more than 300,000 migrant children that she allowed to be trafficked into our country. These children are gone, many of them are dead, and nobody does anything about it. 300,000 children are missing. Can you imagine that? Can you imagine if that were a Trump administration? Be the biggest story in history. Nobody even talks about it, just like they don’t talk about the fact that Joe Biden got $27 million from different countries and they don’t talk about that, him and his family. Just came out from Congress. Nobody talks about it. I do have some good news though, for the people standing behind me in particular, and maybe for some of the press that wants to hear good things, the Supreme Court just ruled that you’re not allowed to have illegal aliens vote. Just came out, just before I walked up. So illegal aliens are officially not allowed to vote in our country.

(41:38)
And I give great credit to the Supreme Court. They have great courage in doing what they’re doing. It’s not easy. But that was one that everybody was hoping for. A vast majority of people agree with that. It’s a very small amount of people that don’t. Who would want that? So thank you very much. And she’s really provided, Harris, deportation immunity to the vast majority of criminal aliens living inside the United States. They’ve got immunity. They really have immunity. And importing MS-13 directly into our cities. MS-13 is the most vicious gang, we feel. If I ask the sheriffs behind me, I think probably considered the most vicious gangs in the world, wouldn’t you say, Brandon? Never seen anything like it. It’s not even believable. I won’t tell you about it. It’s not even believable. As the DA of San Francisco, Kamala Harris was the godmother of deadly sanctuary city. She was considered the godmother. All they’re doing is protecting criminals which set loose illegal alien criminals rather than hand them over to ICE, who were doing an incredible job. Under a program Kamala set up, an illegal alien arrested on drug charges in 2008 was set free to enjoy job training. A short time later, that same illegal alien attacked a 29-year-old, beautiful young woman, Amanda Kiefer. Stealing her purse and fracturing Amanda’s skull. It was vicious and horrible. And Amanda’s here with us and I’d love to have Amanda come up and say a few words. Thank you.

Amanda Kiefer (43:23):

I’m Amanda Kiefer. I don’t feel like I belong on the stage with the folks here since I seem to have gotten off kind of easy with just a fractured skull. I didn’t lose loved ones. But the night I was walking to dinner in Pacific Heights, it was a nice neighborhood, you wouldn’t expect broad daylight for something violent to happen to you on the way to dinner, my purse was stolen and I stepped into the street and the car I jumped into, came at me. I jumped up on the hood to avoid getting run over and he floored it and hit the brakes.

(44:08)
The police were great. They had caught him and his accomplice in a really short time because I remember being on a gurney in the hallway of the hospital and I had to ID them. They were laughing as they fractured my skull. What was really the worst part about it all though is when I found out that taxpayer money was paying for job training for this guy who avoided going to prison for the first felony he committed, for jobs he couldn’t legally hold. It was kind of a wake-up moment for me and I moved out of San Francisco because I didn’t feel safe there. And I don’t think our country is going to be safe under Kamala Harris.

Donald Trump (45:05):

[inaudible 00:45:01]. Story after story. Kamala has called for the abolishing of ICE, the closing of every ICE detention facility, and the releasing of some of the most vicious criminals anywhere in the world by doing so. She supports free healthcare for illegal immigrants and has promised to give illegals mass amnesty and citizenship, which will obliterate social security. Oh, social security is going to be obliterated by all of these millions of people that she wants to put on. And also, Medicare will be obliterated. I’m going to save social security. Not going to touch it. We’re going to make our country strong. But they’re going to obliterate it. She also feels extremely strongly about defund the police. She wants to defund the police. And anytime somebody wants to defund the police, you’re never going to get them back to being normal. The police have to be taken care of. They’re the best thing we have going to protect us.

(46:08)
They know exactly what’s going. When we do deportation, they know every person out there and they know the middle name and they know everything about them and they know all of the bad ones. They know the really bad ones. They’ll be a great help. We have to get the criminals out of our country immediately. Kamala is always going to have open borders. If Comrade Harris has the chance, she will allow more than 100 million illegal aliens into our country. Our country will be overrun, and essentially, it won’t be a country. It will be not governable.

(46:42)
With us today are leaders of the National Border Patrol. You’ve known them and you’ve met them. I don’t have to go over, but I want to just thank them for the incredible job they’ve done. I’ve worked so well with them. Paul Perez has been unbelievable. Past President Brandon Judd, unbelievable. Sheriff Mark Dannels has been incredible. I watched him on television today. He did a great job of explaining this crazy situation that we’re in. Sheriff Chris Hiser, so I want to just say you’re here and Paul and Brandon, and Mark, and everybody, I want to thank you so much. It’s incredible, the job you do. Such a dangerous job.

(47:24)
I actually did, I came in, I met one of the Border Patrol who was badly, badly wounded. I said, “Are you okay?” It was a while ago. He said, “Yes.” I said, “What happened?” “Well, my leg is broken, my arm was broken, my back was broken, my neck was broken, my skull was fractured.” He went through a list of things. I said, “That’s unbelievable.” When we win this November, we will end the Kamala Harris border nightmare once and for all. We’ll get it back very strong. We will also end the inflation, a bad economy, and we will be respected very shortly

Donald Trump (48:00):

… All over the world again, as we were by other countries. The choice is simple. Kamala’s mass amnesty of criminals or president Trump’s mass deportation of criminals. I think that’s pretty easy. In addition to all of the other things, there are many other things, that are equally as bad but not as obvious. With your vote, we will seal the border, stop the invasion and launch the largest deportation effort in American history. We will impose tough new sentences on illegal alien criminals. These include ten-year mandatory minimum sentence for anyone guilty of human smuggling, a guaranteed life sentence for anyone guilty of child trafficking, and a death penalty for anyone guilty of child or woman sex trafficking. We’ll also impose the death penalty on major drug dealers and traffickers in other countries on their immigration papers. There is a statement that says, ” Death for drug traffickers.” Big letters, big bold letters, 10 times the size of everything else on the page. I saw it this morning. And those are the countries where they have no problem with drugs. Many of them actually.

(49:16)
We will also impose the death penalty for anyone killing our police, sheriffs, Border Patrol, ICE or law enforcement officials. The death penalty with a quicker trial, not a trial that lasts for 15 years and everybody gets exhausted. We will liberate our country from the illegal alien, drug dealers, robbers, murderers, gang members and child predators, and we will make America safe again for our citizens and make it greater, stronger, better, more beautiful than ever before. And I want to thank you all and especially four very special people, four very special people. And sheriffs and law enforcement, I want to thank you so much because this job is so dangerous. It’s not even believable. You pull over a car, they open the door and they start shooting you. That happened in Long Island with a great young man, with an incredible family. I went there, same thing.

(50:22)
So we have to stop it. We have to bring our country back. We have to use common sense. You don’t have to be conservative, a liberal, a progressive as they like to say now. They don’t like the term liberal. Republican, Democrat, it doesn’t matter. We have to have strong protection in our country or our country’s going to wither away and die. We need a military. We need our great police to be loved and respected and they will be again. Right now, if somebody does something that’s a little bit on the tough side to stop something that’s very bad, they end up losing their pension, their life, their car, their house. They lose their job, they lose everything. We’re going to give immunity to many, many people so that they can do the law.

(51:09)
But again, I want to thank you. I want to thank the media for being here. I hope you can report this story the way it is. It’s a very sad moment for our country. We have some very bad people trying to get into office, and if we don’t stop them, our country has no chance of greatness. Thank you very much. Thank you. [inaudible 00:51:25]

Speaker 2 (51:24):

Mr. President, you said that local law enforcement will be able to help find the bad undocumented migrants. How will your administration go about the mass deportation of alien migrants across the country?

Donald Trump (51:34):

We’ll work with locals and they’re going to bring them to us and we’ll get them over the border and we’ll make arrangements with the countries and the countries will accept them back. And if they don’t accept them back, we do no trade with those countries and we charge them big tariffs.

Speaker 3 (51:47):

[inaudible 00:51:47] Can you comment on the very end of RFK Jr’s campaign? Did you talk to him in the last couple of days [inaudible 00:51:54]?

Donald Trump (51:54):

I haven’t, but I’m hearing reports. I have a lot of respect for RFK Jr. You know that. I’ve known him a long time, very smart. A little bit different, and that’s okay, but he’s a very smart guy. He’s loved by a lot of people, and I’m hearing that he wants to leave. Don’t forget, he was treated very unfairly. I think he would’ve beaten Biden in a primary, the Kennedy name, and him in particular. I think he would’ve beaten Biden in a primary, and they made it impossible. They said, “You have to get 70% of the vote just to qualify,” or something. They created standards that nobody could have met. Biden couldn’t have met them, and I think he would’ve lost, Biden, and they really treated him very badly.

(52:35)
Then he went out as an independent, and it’s a tough thing to do, independent. It wasn’t set up that way, the country. It’s really a two-party system, whether people like it or not. Republican, Democrat, and I have spoken to him in the past over the last number of months, but not recently, but there are rumors that he’s going to make an endorsement. That would be a great honor for me. Great honor.

Speaker 4 (52:57):

[inaudible 00:52:56] tomorrow at your rally outside of Phoenix?

Donald Trump (52:59):

I don’t know. I don’t know. I can’t say that, but I know we’re in the same state. So we’re not very far away, but I can’t tell you that yet. No plans have been made it this moment.

Brian (53:09):

Mr. President?

Donald Trump (53:09):

Brian?

Brian (53:11):

Yes, sir. As a parent, I’m hearing these stories. You’re a parent yourself. What was going through your mind when hearing all these just horrible stories about losing their children?

Donald Trump (53:22):

What was going through my mind is that, and I almost hate to say it in front of them, I don’t know how they take it. I don’t know how they can take it. You understand that. I think probably most of the people stayed.

Brian (53:33):

[inaudible 00:53:34] to you the entire time.

Donald Trump (53:35):

No, no. How do you take it? How do you do it? It’s devastating when you see what happened, and these are incredible people. These people are incredible people. I got to know them. They’re unbelievable, and they loved as much as you can love someone. I spent time with all of them, and what goes through my mind is I don’t know how the hell they take it.

Speaker 3 (53:57):

Mr. President?

Donald Trump (53:58):

Yes.

Speaker 3 (53:59):

When you talked about Invert Texas earlier, visiting them, it was a big deal for those small border communities. It’s a big deal when you come here. Obviously the border means a lot to you and your campaign.

Donald Trump (54:07):

A lot. Always has.

Speaker 3 (54:09):

So why not support that bipartisan border security bill and how do you get people on board with all the things that you talked about, the policies that you just laid out, how do you get people to come to the table?

Donald Trump (54:21):

Sure. Ready?

Speaker 3 (54:21):

Yeah.

Donald Trump (54:22):

The bipartisan… And it wasn’t bipartisan. They had a couple of people on the other side. It was weak, it was ineffective, and it would’ve allowed, as you know, millions and millions of people to pour through, and largely unvetted. It was a horrible bill. It was a weak bill, and they don’t need a bill. All Biden had to do is look to the border and say, “Close the border.” He didn’t need a bill. He knows that. They didn’t want a bill. The bill was terrible. If it was good, I would’ve approved it. If the House passed a bill before that, I’d approve that bill right now. That was a real bill, but this bill was a weak bill, and it was a shame that they got a Republican. They got somebody who’s a very good person, by the way, but they got him to leave it, but it didn’t make any difference.

(55:07)
If they wanted to close the border, which they don’t, they don’t, they’ll have 100,000,000 people come in and totally destroy, ruin our country. If they wanted to close the border, I didn’t have a bill. I said, “Close the border.” I said, “Brandon, close that border, Brandon,” and what happened? You closed the border. They all did. Paul, the whole group of them. This group is incredible. They closed the border. I looked at them. I said, “We don’t have a bill. We don’t need a bill. Close the damn border.” They closed the border. They could do the same thing.

Speaker 3 (55:41):

It’s happening now though. The encounter numbers are extremely low right now, so that’s what’s been done?

Donald Trump (55:46):

No, no. No. Right now, what’s happening is people are waiting to see what’s going to go with the election and wait until you see what happens after the election, one way or the other. But right now, you take a look at the numbers for the last year. They’re horrendous, absolutely horrendous. And it’s also election time, don’t forget. They want to put out a little bit of a squeeze. All they do and all they want to do, and all they have to do is say, “Biden…” Although I’m not sure. You take a look at, nobody even knows where he is. He is on a beach someplace, but he could even do it from the beach. “Close the border,” and the border is closed. They will close the border immediately. That’s what I did, but we had great people. We’ve lost a lot of those great people because they want to be respected, and they weren’t respected because of this administration, and the worst person in, far worse than Biden, was Kamala.

(56:37)
That’s why I call her Comrade because she’s a radical left person who really wants to have an open border. She’ll never close the border. She’ll never drill for oil and gas. She’s not going to do it. She might do it for a couple of months. She stopped, and that’s where the inflation came in. Then she went back to the Trump policy. What they don’t say is that if I were there, I’d be now four times higher than I was at that moment, but the gasoline prices are still very high right now, but they would’ve been double if they didn’t go back to the Trump policy of drilling. But we would’ve been close to four times how we would’ve been, energy dominant. We were energy independent. They would’ve been energy dominant. But if I want the border closed, if I’m the president, I don’t need a bill. I just have to say, “Close the border,” and they close the border.

Speaker 5 (57:22):

Mr. President, if you get back to the White House, are you confident that you can reach a consensus with Democrats in how to fix the border?

Donald Trump (57:29):

Well, I think right now, you look at it, and I’m one that believes that we want to unify our country, but when you have an issue like this where some people… And I don’t happen to believe it’s the Democrats, I think it’s Democrat leaders that want the open borders. I think it’s Democrat leaders that say, “We don’t want voter ID.” We talk about elections. I always start, “Okay, we start with voter ID.” “We don’t want voter ID.” Said, “No, no. Everything has ID, identification they said, “We don’t want any identification. We don’t want it.” Now, there’s only one reason. So we can’t even negotiate after that because they don’t want voter ID.

(58:08)
So I say to him, “Why don’t you want?” “Well, we just don’t want it. We think it’s discriminatory.” They have all sorts of excuses. They don’t want it because they want to be able to cheat, and we want voter ID and we want same-day voting, and we want paper ballots, and we want proof of citizenship. Very simple. France did it. France went to 38,000,000 votes, and they did it because they had mail-in ballots, and they were very unsafe, very bad. They had tremendous problems, and they went two years ago with an election and worked out incredibly. 10 o’clock in the evening, they had 37,000,000 votes. They were all counted and there were no problems. That’s where our country should go, but the Democrats don’t want to go there because it doesn’t allow them to cheat. Okay. How about one more?

Speaker 3 (58:51):

Mr. President, you have a lot of support for your policies-

Speaker 6 (58:53):

Today, there was a manhunt going on in this county. Somebody made death threats to you. Did you hear about that before coming?

Donald Trump (58:59):

No.

Speaker 6 (58:59):

And what are your thoughts coming down here? Some people told me it’s dangerous for you to be here.

Donald Trump (59:03):

I’ve heard it’s dangerous, but I also have a job to do. I heard it’s very dangerous. I haven’t heard about that. They probably want to keep it from me. Thank you for telling me. Let’s get out of here right now.

Speaker 3 (59:15):

Mr. President, you have a lot of support for your policies-

Donald Trump (59:16):

Thank you very much for saying it, but no. And I have great respect for Secret Service, the job they do, including a month and a half ago when they were jumping on top of me with bullets flying right at them. So mistakes were made, and they’re going to learn from the mistakes, but I have great respect. But no, I haven’t heard that, but I’m not that surprised, and the reason is because I want to do things that are very bad for the bad guys.

Speaker 3 (59:42):

Mr. President-

Donald Trump (59:43):

I have heard it’s very unsafe to make this trip. There were some people that really didn’t want me to make it.

Speaker 3 (59:47):

You have a lot of support-

Donald Trump (59:48):

Yeah.

Speaker 7 (59:49):

Did you support families and children under your mass deportation?

Donald Trump (59:53):

Yeah, we’ll work on that. They’re missing so many children right now under this administration, over 300,000. Many of them are dead. You know that. Many of them are dead. Many of the hostages in Israel are dead. This is why Hamas isn’t talking. Hamas doesn’t want to negotiate very much because I think they probably don’t have very many alive right now. And so they don’t want to really get into too much of a negotiation because I think many of those hostages, unfortunately, are dead. But the 300,000 children that are missing, many of them are dead, and many of them are in sex rings and all sorts of things going on. It’s a terrible thing. They have done such a bad job in this government in terms of everything, foreign relations, border, crime, jobs. And today you found out that the job numbers are fake on top of everything else. Ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much.

Speaker 3 (01:00:51):

Mr. President, you have a lot of support for your policies here. Sheriff Daniels is someone that I’ve spoken with, I’ve interviewed before.

Donald Trump (01:00:51):

Yes.

Speaker 3 (01:00:51):

He’s very much in support of your policies, but when it comes to something like mass deportation, how would you work with blue states and blue cities that might not be as supportive as some of the folks here in [inaudible 01:01:01]?

Donald Trump (01:01:00):

Let me tell you, they’re much more supportive than you think. I’ve watched New York, Eric Adams. I’ve watched the body language, a lot of people that are in charge of that, they want to straighten it out. They can’t live like this. New York has hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants in there. Many of them are very, very hardened criminals, and I’ve watched the Mayors. I’ve watched Governors talking, and it’s almost like they’re talking because they demand it from Washington. Now, they want it out much more than people would understand. They want them out.

(01:01:31)
They don’t want to see their cities overrun. New York is overrun, Chicago’s overrun, and you would be surprised, and the people, including Democrats, Democrats want have a secure border. Democrats want to have a secure vote. It’s the leadership that doesn’t. So I think that’ll be a very easy situation to solve. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. [inaudible 01:01:51].

Speaker 8 (01:01:51):

Do you think the election this year will be secured, Mr. President?

Donald Trump (01:01:54):

I hope so.

Speaker 9 (01:01:58):

All right. You’re just listening in there to the former President Donald Trump make these remarks there at the US and Mexico border, talking about his immigration policy, the mass deportation that he is expected to have. You also heard from different family members of the likes of Rachel Morin, Laken Riley, Jocelyn Nungaray, the families of them continued to mourn the loss of those individuals. Certainly some sad stories that we followed very, very closely here on LiveNOW from Fox. And you were also hearing…

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