Did Donald Trump Say Undocumented Immigrants Are Animals

President Donald Trump listens during a roundtable on immigration policy in California, in the Chiffonier Room of the White House, on Wed. Evan Vucci/AP hide caption

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President Donald Trump listens during a roundtable on clearing policy in California, in the Chiffonier Room of the White House, on Wednesday.

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Updated May 18

President Trump, speaking on Wednesday to a gathering of officials from California who oppose the state'south "sanctuary" law, compared some people who illegally cross the U.S. southern border to "animals."

During a White Business firm roundtable discussion with law enforcement officials and political leaders, Fresno County Sheriff Margaret Mims expressed frustration that a California law signed last year by Gov. Jerry Brown forbids informing U.South. Customs and Immigration Enforcement of undocumented immigrants in the country'southward jails, even if police believe they are part of a gang.

"There could exist an MS-xiii member I know about — if they don't reach a certain threshold, I cannot tell ICE near it," Mims said.

Trump'due south response: "We take people coming into the state — or trying to come in, we're stopping a lot of them — but nosotros're taking people out of the state, y'all wouldn't believe how bad these people are. These aren't people. These are animals," the president said.

As the remark drew criticism and sparked a contend over which people Trump meant to include within the scope of his remarks, counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway said people had "rushed to judgment."

Conway added that both the president and people who take lost loved ones to gang violence are owed an apology.

Others who rushed to judgment to go the President rather than to become the story owe @POTUS - and the grieving loved ones who have lost family unit members to gang violence - an apology. https://t.co/vLU4SgKpux
— Kellyanne Conway (@KellyannePolls) May 17, 2018

On Thursday, the White House clarified the comment. Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said Trump was "very clearly referring to MS-xiii gang members who enter the country illegally and whose deportations are hamstrung by our laws."

When asked well-nigh the annotate, Trump himself said "I'm referring and you lot know I'm referring to the MS-13 gangs that are coming in. I was talking almost the MS-thirteen. And if you await a little bit further on in the tape y'all'll come across that. And then I'm actually surprised that you're asking this question 'cause most people got it correct."

"MS-13, these are animals," he continued Thursday. "They're coming into out country, we're getting them out. They come in again, we're getting them out. We need strong immigration laws. ... We have laws that are laughed at on immigration. And so when the MS-xiii comes in, when the other gang members come into our land, I refer to them as animals and guess what? I ever will."

At Wednesday'due south upshot, the president thanked attendees at the roundtable who he said had "bravely resisted California's deadly and unconstitutional sanctuary state laws."

"[The] release of illegal immigrant criminals, drug dealers, gang members and fierce predators into your communities" and providing "safe harbor to some of the most savage and violent offenders on world," the president said.

Gov. Brown tweeted out later that the president "is lying on clearing, lying about crime and lying well-nigh the laws of CA."

🤥 @realDonaldTrump is lying on immigration, lying about crime and lying about the laws of CA. Flying in a dozen Republican politicians to flatter him and praise his reckless policies changes zippo. We, the citizens of the fifth largest economy in the earth, are non impressed.
— Jerry Chocolate-brown (@JerryBrownGov) May 16, 2018

As The Associated Press notes, "Brownish insists the legislation, which took effect Jan. 1, doesn't prevent federal immigration officials from doing their jobs. But the Trump administration has sued to contrary it, calling the policies unconstitutional and dangerous. Some counties, including San Diego and Orangish, accept voted to support the lawsuit or passed their own anti-sanctuary resolutions."

Despite evidence to the contrary, Trump has repeatedly insisted that illegal immigration to the U.South. is contributing to a wave of law-breaking. During the 2016 campaign, he famously referred to immigrants from Mexico as "bad hombres" and said almost were "drug dealers, criminals, rapists."

Citing one written report conducted past four universities, The New York Times wrote in March that data bear witness, "a large majority of the [metropolitan] areas have many more immigrants today than they did in 1980 and fewer violent crimes. The Marshall Projection extended the study'southward data up to 2016, showing that crime fell more often than it rose even every bit immigrant populations grew about across the board."

According to the Times, "In 136 metro areas, almost 70 percent of those studied, the immigrant population increased between 1980 and 2016 while criminal offense stayed stable or roughshod. The number of areas where criminal offence and immigration both increased was much lower — 54 areas, slightly more than than a quarter of the full. The x places with the largest increases in immigrants all had lower levels of crime in 2016 than in 1980."

Source: https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/05/17/611877563/during-roundtable-trump-calls-some-unauthorized-immigrants-animals

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