Trump Threatens Flights to Pennsylvania in Weird Anti-Immigrant Rant
Donald Trump is still escalating his anti-immigrant rhetoric.In a thinly veiled threat on Truth Social, the Republican presidential nominee likened immigration to “the destruction of America” and promised that, if elected, he would end “migrant flights” to Pennsylvania immediately and send “those who do not belong… back home.”“It takes centuries to build the unique character of each state. But reckless migration policy can change it quickly and permanently. Just like we’ve seen in London, and Paris, and Minneapolis,” Trump wrote early Tuesday (apparently lumping international capital cities in with states). “If Kamala Harris wins this election, she will flood Pennsylvania cities and towns with illegal migrants from all over the world—and Pennsylvania will not be Pennsylvania any longer.”“When I am president, all migrant flights to Pennsylvania will STOP the moment I take the oath of office,” he continued. “Those who do not belong, will be sent back home. We will end the invasion of small-town Pennsylvania—and we will END the destruction of America.”It’s the second such warning that Trump has made this week, and that comes in the wake of a bewildering and baseless conspiracy contrived by Trump and his vice presidential pick J.D. Vance accusing Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio, of eating pets. Multiple city officials, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine, and even Vance himself have stated in no uncertain terms that the conspiracy is false, but that hasn’t stopped a deluge of bomb threats from tying up the city, forcing it to evacuate and temporarily shutter several of its schools, colleges, festivals, and a significant portion of its government facilities.In a weekend interview with Full Measure’s Sharyl Attkisson, Trump posited the idea of giving noncitizens “serial numbers” for the purposes of mass deportations, a mental image that echoes the identification numbers forcibly tattooed on concentration camp prisoners. In the same interview, Trump argued that the U.S.—which was founded by and has historically been a nation of immigrants—shouldn’t be a “dumping ground” for newcomers, and said that less U.S. media coverage of border issues and his proposed deportation programs could be a solution to allowing him to follow through on his extreme plans.“If you take a young woman with two beautiful children, and you put her on a bus, and it ends up on the front page of every newspaper. It makes it a lot harder,” Trump told Full Measure. “You put one wrong person onto a bus or onto an airplane, and your radical left lunatics will try and make it sound like the worst thing that’s ever happened.”
Donald Trump is still escalating his anti-immigrant rhetoric.
In a thinly veiled threat on Truth Social, the Republican presidential nominee likened immigration to “the destruction of America” and promised that, if elected, he would end “migrant flights” to Pennsylvania immediately and send “those who do not belong… back home.”
“It takes centuries to build the unique character of each state. But reckless migration policy can change it quickly and permanently. Just like we’ve seen in London, and Paris, and Minneapolis,” Trump wrote early Tuesday (apparently lumping international capital cities in with states). “If Kamala Harris wins this election, she will flood Pennsylvania cities and towns with illegal migrants from all over the world—and Pennsylvania will not be Pennsylvania any longer.”
“When I am president, all migrant flights to Pennsylvania will STOP the moment I take the oath of office,” he continued. “Those who do not belong, will be sent back home. We will end the invasion of small-town Pennsylvania—and we will END the destruction of America.”
It’s the second such warning that Trump has made this week, and that comes in the wake of a bewildering and baseless conspiracy contrived by Trump and his vice presidential pick J.D. Vance accusing Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio, of eating pets. Multiple city officials, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine, and even Vance himself have stated in no uncertain terms that the conspiracy is false, but that hasn’t stopped a deluge of bomb threats from tying up the city, forcing it to evacuate and temporarily shutter several of its schools, colleges, festivals, and a significant portion of its government facilities.
In a weekend interview with Full Measure’s Sharyl Attkisson, Trump posited the idea of giving noncitizens “serial numbers” for the purposes of mass deportations, a mental image that echoes the identification numbers forcibly tattooed on concentration camp prisoners. In the same interview, Trump argued that the U.S.—which was founded by and has historically been a nation of immigrants—shouldn’t be a “dumping ground” for newcomers, and said that less U.S. media coverage of border issues and his proposed deportation programs could be a solution to allowing him to follow through on his extreme plans.
“If you take a young woman with two beautiful children, and you put her on a bus, and it ends up on the front page of every newspaper. It makes it a lot harder,” Trump told Full Measure. “You put one wrong person onto a bus or onto an airplane, and your radical left lunatics will try and make it sound like the worst thing that’s ever happened.”
