LOS ANGELES – Republican candidate and former US president Donald Trump said on Friday that if elected president his plan to carry out the “largest deportation (of immigrants) in the history of the country” will begin in Springfield (Ohio) bound for Venezuela.
“This is what I can say: We will do mass deportations from Springfield. We will get these people out. We will take them back to Venezuela,” he said at a press conference held at his golf club in Palos Verdes, California.
He said he would return them to Venezuela, when the majority of immigrants in that city come from Haiti and have legal documents.
In his opinion, the “illegal Haitians” are destroying the way of life of the inhabitants of that area.
The New York tycoon has been spreading the lie for days that Haitians eat the cats and dogs of local citizens in Springfield.
These accusations have led to the Haitian community being singled out, even receiving bomb threats that have forced the closure of schools in the last two days and other official facilities. President Joe Biden himself called on Friday for such rhetoric to cease.
The former president used much of his press conference to also criticize his November 5 opponent, Vice President and Democratic candidate Kamala Harris, accusing her again without evidence of facilitating the “largest wave of sex trafficking and human trafficking in history” with her policies on the border with Mexico.
Trump held Harris responsible for the deterioration of law and order in California through her policies as attorney general in that state and as a senator there.
The two candidates faced off in their first debate on Tuesday. The former president, who was defensive and irascible at the time, reiterated on Friday that he was not interested in participating in another debate with Harris and called the Democrat and the journalists who moderated the meeting organized by the ABC network “lunatics.”
“The debate was great, I thought I did very well, but I was fighting against three people. I was fighting against the radical left-wing lunatics at ABC, in my opinion the worst hosts there are,” he said.
His meeting with the press on Friday came a day after he held a fundraising event in Los Angeles, a city that is considered by some experts to be the “cashier” for political parties due to the large sums of money they manage to raise there for their campaigns.
On Thursday, the Republican candidate held a rally in Tucson, Arizona, one of the key states for the presidential election, where he proposed eliminating taxes on overtime to encourage employment.
The proposal comes in an attempt to win the vote of workers and follows a previous one in which she proposed eliminating taxes on tips in the service sector, an initiative that Harris formulated later, after which she was accused of plagiarism by Republicans.