Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville said Donald Trump did not go far enough on Saturday when he said migrants are “poisoning the blood” of the United States.
“I’m mad he wasn’t tougher than that, because have you seen what’s happening at the border?” Tuberville told The Hill Tuesday.
Trump made the comment at his rally in Durham, New Hampshire over the weekend.
“They let — I think the real number is 15, 16 million people into our country. When they do that, we got a lot of work to do. They’re poisoning the blood of our country,” he said. “That’s what they’ve done. They poison mental institutions and prisons all over the world, not just in South America, not just to three or four countries that we think about, but all over the world. They’re coming into our country from Africa, from Asia, all over the world.”
Trump later doubled down in a post on his Truth Social app, writing: “Illegal immigration is poisoning the blood of our nation. They’re coming from prisons, from mental institutions — from all over the world.”
Trump has received bipartisan condemnation for his remarks and was accused of “parroting” Adolf Hitler by President Joe Biden’s campaign.
The term “blood poisoning” was used by Hitler in Mein Kampf to criticize immigration and race mixing.
“All great cultures of the past perished only because the originally creative race died out from blood poisoning,” Hitler wrote.
