Donald Trump has again gone on a rampage against migrants in his speech at the Republican National Convention - a speech that outlined protecting the US border as one of his main goals for 2025 – if he wins the elections on November 5, states in. "Frankfurter Rundschau", quoted by BTA.
Migration is one of the most important issues in the election campaign of former US President Donald Trump. In his speech on the final night of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, the presidential candidate again used radical rhetoric to stoke fear of immigrants.
Trump spoke for minutes on immigration in Congress Thursday night. "They come from everywhere," the Republican said, referring to the migrants crossing the US border. "We have become a dumping ground for the rest of the world - and they laugh at us. They think we are stupid.“ According to Trump, "insane people" are coming through the southern border into the US. and almost exclusively criminals.
Trump's position is not new, he has repeatedly made migration an issue in the past, including during the 2016 election campaign. It is noteworthy, the Frankfurter Rundschau points out, that his statements over time are becoming more radical. More recently, for example, he stated that immigrants "are not people” and that they "poison the blood of our country”.
Rhetorically, the Republican often uses seemingly innocuous or ambiguous words to gain support from a particular group without provoking opposition. His speeches also contained numerous false claims, such as that migrants were mainly responsible for smuggling drugs such as fentanyl, the German newspaper noted.
According to the Associated Press, however, the data shows that mainly US citizens smuggle fentanyl across the border.
One of Trump's widespread immigration conspiracy theories is that migrants are supposedly coming into the country to vote in the 2024 US election. There is no evidence for this. According to a census of the “Washington Post” the Republican told over 30,000 lies during his last term.
If he wins the Nov. 5 vote, Trump's 2025 plans promise the "biggest deportation operation in American history”
Migration is an important issue in US elections, and immigration reform has long been debated in the US. At the party convention in Milwaukee, the party platform was also adopted, which contains a total of 20 promises. One of them is: "Conducting the largest deportation operation in American history”. In his first term, Donald Trump failed to accomplish everything he wanted, but this time he is ready. In the program "Project 2025” detailed what the Republican intends to do if re-elected.
Developed by the think tank Foundation "Heritage" "Project 2025" is effectively a blueprint for a massive overhaul of the US federal government should Trump win the election in the fall. The president of "Heritage" Kevin Roberts said in an interview on Steve Bannon's podcast "War Hall" (War Room) that the United States is in the midst of a "second American revolution," which will be bloodless, "if the left allows it,", the Associated Press reported.
78-year-old Trump tried to distance himself from the manifesto, writing on his social network Truth Social: "I disagree with some of the performances and some are absolutely ridiculous and disastrous.“ But he did not go into detail, which is why observers do not consider what he said about the differences to be credible. In "Project 2025“ listed goals as "restoring the family as a central element of American life”, "abolishing the administrative state”, "guaranteeing our God-given individual rights to live freely” and "protecting our nation's sovereignty, borders and wealth from global threats", noted the "Frankfurter Rundschau".
For now, these productions remain a plan of action. It remains to be seen to what extent they will be translated into real policy.