SCARED OF CHILDREN
Trump rips MS-13 ‘animals’on L.I. Young immigrants ‘not innocent’
PRESIDENT TRUMP believes migrant children area violent threat to the U.S., warning Wednesday that despite appearances to the contrary “they’renot innocent.”
Trump told bloody tales as he railed against the violent MS-13 gang during a roundtable discussion on Long Island, asserting that members are “exploiting” loopholesinthe immigration system.
Some of the gang’s members crossthe country’s southern border as unaccompanied minors, Trump said.
“They look so innocent. They’re not innocent,” he added as he vowed to make “radical” changes to U.S. aid practices and again assailed MS-13 members as “animals.”
Trump’s claims aren’t backed up by facts that come from his own officials. Carla Provost, the acting chief of the U.S. Border Patrol, noted during Senate testimony last summer how seldom gang members are caught among the unaccompanied minors crossing the border from Mexico.
Of the 250,000 children apprehended between 2011 and summer 2017, 159 had or were suspected of having gang affiliations.
Ofthose, only56 were suspected of affiliation or confirmed to be membersofMS-13,Provostsaid.
But Trump continued to beat the drum of fear at the Bethpage event as he repeated his description of MS-13members and derided Democrats who he said were defending criminals.
“I called them ‘animals’ the other day and I was met with rebuke,” he said. “(Democrats) said, ‘They’re people.’ They’re not people, these are animals, and we have to be very, verytough.”
Trump, joined by several House Republicans andlocal officials, said he’ s working on a plan to deduct aid from foreign countries that don’t cooperate with U.S. immigration authorities and refuse to accept deportees.
Every time someone tries to come into the U.S. illegally from one of the countries that receives aid, “We’re going to deduct a rather large”amount ofmoney, hesaid.
The President added that, “We’re looking at our whole aid structure. It’s going to be changed very radically.”
Trump has previously accused countries like Mexico of failing to