Hours before voting begins today in the US presidential election, former president and Republican candidate Donald Trump encouraged professional college athletes to fight back against immigrants and called for the death penalty for immigrants who take the lives of American citizens and police officers, DPA reported, BTA reported.
At a campaign rally in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, one of the swing states, Trump again complained about the influx of immigrants along the southern border of the United States, suggesting that professional college athletes from the state university "Penn State" in the state of Pennsylvania to "fight them". "Oh, those guys from "Penn State". I want them to crack down on immigrants," Trump said.
He later called for the harshest punishment for immigrants who cause the death of American citizens or law enforcement officers. "I am calling here for the death penalty for any immigrant who kills an American citizen or law enforcement officer," he told the crowd. The 78-year-old Trump made limiting illegal immigration a central theme of his election campaign and repeatedly portrayed immigrants as enemies of the United States, deliberately inflaming sentiment against foreigners with false claims, DPA notes.