Former President Donald Trump vowed Saturday to end the nation’s migrant crisis if re-elected by pushing Congress to eliminate sanctuary city rules protecting illegal border crossers.
“Today, I am announcing a new plan to end all sanctuary cities in North Carolina and all across our country,” the Republican presidential nominee told a crowd of 10,000 at Aero Center Wilmington in North Carolina.
“I will ask Congress to pass a law outlawing sanctuary cities nationwide, and we will bring down the full weight of the federal government on any jurisdiction that refuses to cooperate” with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Customs and Border Patrol, he added.
“As soon as I take office I will surge federal law enforcement to every city that is failing — which is a lot of them — to turn over criminal aliens, and we will hunt down and capture every single gang member, drug dealer, rapist, murderer and migrant criminal that is being illegally harbored,” vowed Trump.
“We will get them out of North Carolina and send them home where they belong.”
It was his first outdoor rally since Sept. 15, when authorities thwarted a second assassination attempt on the Republican presidential nominee’s life.
Speaking for little over an hour in the high-stakes swing state of North Carolina, Trump slammed the Harris-Biden administration, claiming it will be the end of American democracy should Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris win in November.
He also rejected another debate with Harris, who earlier in the day boasted she’d accepted CNN’s invitation for an Oct. 23 debate between the pair.
Trump claimed Harris only wants to debate him because she’s “losing” the race — even though most polls have it near deadlocked — and because early voting has already begun.
“She’s done one debate. I’ve done two,” said Trump, referring to his earlier face-off with President Biden.
Trump also repeatedly made fun of how Harris speaks in public; called her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, “weird;” and vowed to work with Elon Musk to send people to Mars if re-elected.
The appearance in the Tar Heel state was also Trump’s first since an explosive report accusing the state’s GOP gubernatorial nominee Mark Robinson of calling himself a black Nazi and proposing to bring back slavery in an online forum years ago.
Robinson, the state’s lieutenant governor, has denied the allegations and said he will remain in the governor’s race.
Robinson didn’t attend Saturday’s rally, and Trump didn’t mention him during his speech. However, the Trump campaign told The Post it plans to continue backing North Carolina’s full GOP ticket – which includes Robinson.
