Former President Donald Trump’s comments on migrants with murder convictions having “bad genes” are drawing significant attention. Much of the attention has come from left-leaning news outlets.
NBC News: “Trump suggests immigrants have ‘bad genes’ in latest disparagement of migrants”
Politico: “Trump on immigrants: ‘We got a lot of bad genes in our country right now’”
Reuters: “Donald Trump says there are ‘a lot of bad genes’ among migrants in the US”
The Daily Beast: “Donald Trump Goes Off the Rails With Claim That Some Races Have Murder Gene”
While criticizing the Biden-Harris administration, Trump specifically addressed migrants who have been convicted of murder living in the U.S. during an interview with conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt.
“How about allowing people to come through an open border, 13,000 of which were murderers, many of them murdered far more than one person, and they’re now happily living in the United States,” Trump said. “I believe this, it’s in their genes, and we got a lot of bad genes in our country right now. They had 425,000 people come into our country that shouldn’t be here that are criminals.”
His remarks reference a recently released report from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), which stated that 435 thousand migrants with criminal convictions have been released by the agency. Among them, 13,000 had murder convictions.
The data spans four decades and includes figures up to July 21 of this year. It remains unclear how many of these migrants entered and were released during the Biden administration.
The story is primarily being covered by media outlets with a left-leaning bias.
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As of of afternoon on Monday, Oct. 7, right-leaning outlets like Fox News and the New York Post had not published articles on Trump’s comments.
Politico included a statement from a Trump campaign spokesperson, who clarified that Trump’s “bad genes” comment was “referring to murderers, not migrants.”
