Special to USAfrica magazine (Houston) and USAfricaonline.com, first Africa-owned, US-based newspaper published on the Internet.
Trump says immigrants from Africa, Asia and South America are “poisoning the blood of our country”
At a campaign rally in Durham, New Hampshire on Saturday, December 16, 2023, divisive former President Donald Trump ramped up his anti-immigrant position, admiration of autocratic approach and White nationalist politics.
“They’re poisoning the blood of our country…. Not just in South America, not just the three or four countries that we think about, but all over the world they are coming into our country, from Africa, from Asia, all over the world. They’re pouring into our country, nobody’s even looking at them.”
Trump has promised to severely cut the number of immigrants from those sections of the world, including many persons who are naturalized citizens. He has warned that should he win his bid to be returned as President of the United States, he would implement “the largest domestic deportation operation in American history,” Trump has indicated that he will detain people who enter the country illegally or make their way to seek asylum, here in the U.S.
President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign has denounced Trump’s comments as reflecting Hitler’s white Aryan supremacist language and worldview.
“Tonight Donald Trump channeled his role models as he parroted Adolf Hitler, praised Kim Jong Un, and quoted Vladimir Putin while running for president on a promise to rule as a dictator and threaten American democracy,” stated campaign spokesperson Ammar Moussa. “Trump is not shying away from his plan to lock up millions of people into detention camps and continues to lie about that time when Joe Biden obliterated him by over 7 million votes three years ago. He is betting he can win this election by scaring and dividing this country. He’s wrong.”
Hitler wrote in his manifesto “Mein Kampf,” that “all great cultures of the past perished only because the originally creative race died off through blood-poisoning.”
One of Trump’s Republican opponents, New Jersey’s former Gov. Chris Christie, has called Trump’s statements “disgusting”. He argued that “What he’s doing is dog-whistling to Americans who feel absolutely under stress and strain from the economy and from the conflicts around the world. These dog whistles to blame it on people from areas that don’t look like us…. The other problem with this is the Republicans who are saying this is okay. Almost 100 members of Congress who have endorsed him. Nikki Haley, who this week said he is fit to be president.” Christie queried:
“You’re telling me that someone who says that immigrants are poisoning the blood of this country, someone who says Vladimir Putin is a character witness, is fit to be President of the United States?”
Trump’s supporter and apologist, South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, earlier on Sunday December 17, 2023 said on NBC News’ ‘Meet the Press’: “I couldn’t care less what language people use, as long as we get it right.”
