President Donald Trump pitched his migration policy to uneasy swing voters on Tuesday by displaying the faces of many arrested and deported migrants — and by touting his economic accomplishments.
“These are all criminal illegal aliens,” Trump told the White House press room as he displayed photos of the detained migrants:
In many cases, they’re murderers, they’re drug lords, drug dealers, the mentally insane, some of them who are brutal killers. They’re mentally insane. They’re killers, but they’re insane. These [migrants] are just in Minnesota. [In] California, it’s worse. In other states, it’s worse.
The display was pitched to reassure the election-deciding swing voters who are unnerved by the apparent chaos — including the lethal shooting of an activist in Minnesota.
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