Donald Trump continued to dehumanize undocumented immigrants, telling his supporters that some of them are “not people.”
Trump made the comment at a rally in Vandalia, Ohio while talking about undocumented immigrants who commit crime, according to the Washington Post.
“I don’t know if you call them people. In some cases they’re not people, in my opinion,” Trump said. “But I’m not allowed to say that because the radical left says that’s a terrible thing to say.”
Trump also told his supporters that one of his first acts if re-elected is “to stop the invasion of our country.”
Trump was in Ohio campaigning for his former critic turn sycophant, Bernie Moreno, whom he endorsed for the U.S. Senate seat.
Republicans are trying to make immigration a central issue in the 2024 so much so that they killed a bipartisan immigration deal so they can have the issue to run on.
In his remarks on Saturday, Moreno, a Colombian immigrant, said foreigners who come to the United States should learn English.
“We don’t need to vote in five different languages. We learn the language,” he said. “It means you assimilate. You become part of America; America doesn’t become part of you.”
