The former US president and Republican candidate, Donald Trump, once again resorted to his monologue on the relationship between crime and irregular immigration to mobilize the conservative vote in California, a state with a Democratic majority, with the intention of maintaining control of the House of Representatives in November.
Trump appeared in Coachella, a city east of Los Angeles known for the festival of the same name, as a headliner to talk about the “immigrant invasion” and promise that if he wins the elections, November 5 will be “liberation day.”
The former president once again used the transnational gang Tren de Aragua to draw a direct relationship between illegal immigration and crime in the country, something that is not supported by the data, which indicates that the crime rate among immigrants is lower than in the country. rest of the population.
Invasion
“California has been invaded,” said the presidential candidate. “Beautiful girls are being cut into pieces,” said the former president, who trusts that the fear of irregular immigration, which skyrocketed in the first years of President Joe Biden’s Administration, will help him win the November elections.
Trump promised the death penalty against any immigrant who kills a US citizen or a police officer.
The Republican said he will apply a 1798 law against foreign enemies of the United States to obtain the authority to deport en masse immigrants who have entered the country irregularly in what he has dubbed ‘Operation Aurora’, in reference to the Colorado city. that became media due to the alleged presence of the Aragua Train.
Local Colorado leaders refute this narrative about immigrant crime, including the Republican mayor of Aurora, Mike Coffman, who said this week that “concerns about Venezuelan gang activity have been grossly exaggerated.”
Police Departments in several cities in the country have detected activity that they have linked to the Aragua Train, an organization born in a prison near Caracas and that has been accused of crimes such as extortion and sexual exploitation of migrants in South America.
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However, Trump and the ultra-conservative information ecosystem have magnified this type of news and taken data about undocumented immigrants with a criminal record or history out of context to stigmatize immigrants.
California is key for Republicans to maintain control of the lower house of Congress, since five to six highly contested seats are at stake in the state.
The Californian Democratic congressman and president of the Democratic Caucus, the highest-ranking Latino in Congress, Pete Aguilar, told EFE that they are “very optimistic that the House majority will be won in California. “I have worked hard on these political efforts to win these seats.”
Coachella Mayor Steven Hernandez has insisted that the Coachella Valley is not receptive to Trump’s ideas. “He has not been invited by the people who live here,” he said this week about the former Republican president’s visit.
Los Angeles / EFE
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