Donald Trump's new migrant death penalty policies revealed

Donald Trump announced new death penalty policies he would implement against illegal migrants during a campaign event along the U.S.-Mexico border Thursday.

The former president traveled to Cochise County, Arizona, to highlight the stark differences between his and Vice President Kamala Harris’s immigration agenda.

During the 70-minute address, Trump and the media stood cooking in the scorching southwest sun as the ex-president spoke and brought victims of migrant-related crimes to the podium to share their agonizing personal stories.

After families from Texas and Maryland revealed the heart-wrenching details of their loved ones’ brutal deaths at the hands of illegal migrants, Trump announced policy priorities to prevent future tragedies.

‘We will seal the border, stop the invasion, and launch the largest deportation effort in American history,’ the former president said before adding he will also ‘impose tough new sentences on illegal alien criminals.’

‘These include a 10-year mandatory minimum sentence for anyone guilty of human smuggling, a guaranteed life sentence for anyone guilty of child trafficking and the death penalty for anyone guilty of child or woman sex trafficking.’

The new death penalty proposals are a noticeable escalation in his tough-on-immigration agenda.

But those were not the only new capital offenses he wants to see.

‘We’ll also impose the death penalty on major drug dealers and traffickers in other countries,’ he told the crowd.

He also mentioned how other countries – specific ones he did not name – have bold warnings on their immigration applications.

‘On their immigration papers, there is a statement that says ‘death for drug traffickers,’’ Trump said.

He continued on about the warning, recalling how it was written in ‘big letters, big bold letters, 10 times the size of everything else on the page,’ so that traffickers know the consequences of their crimes.

‘And those are the countries where they have no problem with drugs,’ he added.

The new death penalty policies were particularly poignant when taking into consideration the victims that flanked the former president during his border address.

Rachel Morin, the Maryland mother of five who was raped and killed before being stuffed in a drain by an illegal migrant, was celebrated by her mom Patty Morin at the event.

During her remarks commemorating her daughter’s life and horrific death Patty bust into tears, wracked with grief.

Seeing the shaken woman, Trump gave her a hug and a kiss on the cheek to comfort the distraught mother.

Patty noted how her daughter’s rape and murder by an illegal migrant did not happen close to the border, but 1,800 miles away in Maryland, where Rachel lived with her family.

‘We're here because we're losing our moms, our daughters, our children, to criminals, and that shouldn't happen,’ she said.

‘We should be taking care of our country, our people, and the only way I think that's going to happen and close up this border. Put policies back into place that were there before.’

Moments later another speaker from Houston, Texas, came to the microphone.

And the tears continued to flow.

The mother of a 12-year-old rape and murder victim Jocelyn Nungaray, Alexis Nungaray, opened up about the stomach-turning loss of her daughter to the hands of illegal immigrants in June.

‘They had no reason to do anything that they did to Jocelyn,’ the mother said, visibly upset by the matter.

‘One had an ankle monitor. Didn't stop anything. So now I have to go through the rest of my life with my son always asking for his sister.’

‘I just really, really want everybody to please take into consideration how important border control is, because we're losing very innocent people to hang his cries that shouldn't be happening in the first place.’

‘I really hope everybody can hear my pain,’ Nungaray said fighting back tears.

When the Texas mother seemed unsteady rehashing the grisly details of her child’s death Trump sought to comfort her while solemnly taking in the horrible story.

The former president quickly retook the podium to further offer his condolences.

‘Jocelyn is in heaven now, looking down on us right now, and in her name and her memory we will be fighting to protect every American daughter.’

'Kamala says she wants to talk about the future now, [but] these people want to go back to the safe past.'

'We don't have a future with open borders and all of the other problems.'

Source: Mail Online, Staff, August 23, 2024

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