By Virginia Allen, The Daily Signal, October 24, 2024
Virginia Allen is a senior news producer for The Daily Signal and host of “The Daily Signal Podcast” and “Problematic Women.” Send an email to Virginia.
Under the Biden-Harris administration, the United States has become a “garbage can for the world,” former President Donald Trump said at a campaign rally Thursday in Tempe, Arizona.
“When [Vice President Kamala Harris] came in, she deliberately dismantled our border and threw open the gates … to an invasion of criminal migrants from prisons and jails, from insane asylums and mental institutions, from all over the world,” Trump said.
“We’re a dumping ground, were like a garbage can for the world,” he said, adding that was the first time he had ever used that phrasing.
In September, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced that more than 662,000 criminal illegal aliens have been released into the interior of the U.S. Among those, 435,719 had already been convicted of a crime, with 226,847 more facing pending criminal charges. …