Trump launches fresh tirade against illegal migrants, calls them ‘animals’ and ‘not humans’

Former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump once again kicked up his degrading rhetoric against migrants, calling them "animals", "not humans" and "mental patients" during campaign rallies in Michigan and Wisconsin on Tuesday (Apr 2).

If I don't win…

Trump in Michigan listed, at times in graphic detail, several criminal cases involving suspects that have entered the US illegally.

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"They're sending prisoners, murderers, drug dealers, mental patients and terrorists, the worst they have in every country all over the world. This isn't just in South America. They're coming from the Congo, from Yemen, from Somalia, from Syria. They come from all over the world. China. Many of them are military age, which is very strange."

He warned people that violence and chaos would consume America if he didn't win the upcoming November 5 election.

"If we don't win on November 5th, I think our country is going to cease to exist. It could be the last election we ever have. I actually mean that we don't win, I think this could be the last election we ever have. That's where our country's going," he said.

Speaking about Lake Riley, a 22-year-old Georgia nursing student allegedly murdered by an illegal Venezuelan illegal immigrant, Trump said some immigrants were sub-human.

"The 22-year-old nursing student in Georgia who was barbarically murdered by an illegal alien animal. The Democrats say, 'please don't call them animals, they're humans.' I said 'no, they're not humans, they're animals'," said the Presidential candidate.

Biden a threat to democracy: Trump

Calling rival Joe Biden a "threat to democracy," Trump in Wisconsin reiterated that his losing the election will mean that the 2024 elections will be the last in US.

He vowed to stop the "invasion" of "prisoners", "murderers", "drug dealers", "mental patients", and "terrorists", and said that the worst of every country would come to the United States.

"Joe Biden is so weak on the border that other countries are now publicly taunting and extorting him by pumping migrants across our wide-open border," he said.

As per Reuters, while Trump regularly claims immigrants crossing the borders in Mexico have escaped from prisons and mental asylums in their home countries, there is no proof that they are fuelling the crime rate in the US. Even though data is sparse, researchers stress that illegal migrants do not commit crimes at a higher rate than American citizens do.

(With inputs from agencies)