{"id":115188,"date":"2024-10-17T13:10:18","date_gmt":"2024-10-17T06:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=115188"},"modified":"2024-10-17T13:10:18","modified_gmt":"2024-10-17T06:10:18","slug":"trump-stands-by-debunked-claims-immigrants-are-eating-pets-at-event-for-hispanic-voters-us-elections-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=115188","title":{"rendered":"Trump stands by debunked claims immigrants are eating pets at event for Hispanic voters | US elections 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">Donald Trump \u2013 who has built his presidential campaign on the idea that immigrants are \u201cdestroying\u201d the US and promoting mass deportation \u2013 faced blunt, tough questions from undecided Hispanic voters on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">At a town hall hosted by Univision, the largest US Spanish-language network, several dozen Latino voters from across the country questioned the former president about immigration, as well as the economy, abortion and other key issues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">The Republican presidential candidate \u2013 who has been increasingly trying to court Latino voters \u2013 struggled to field specific questions about policy, even as he doubled down on misinformation about immigration.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"3a30f034-f08b-4f22-b17d-3790d1b673cd\" data-spacefinder-role=\"richLink\" data-spacefinder-type=\"model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.RichLinkBlockElement\" class=\" dcr-1your1i\"><gu-island name=\"RichLinkComponent\" priority=\"feature\" deferuntil=\"idle\" props=\"{&quot;richLinkIndex&quot;:3,&quot;element&quot;:{&quot;_type&quot;:&quot;model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.RichLinkBlockElement&quot;,&quot;prefix&quot;:&quot;Related: &quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Where do Harris and Trump stand on the key election issues?&quot;,&quot;elementId&quot;:&quot;3a30f034-f08b-4f22-b17d-3790d1b673cd&quot;,&quot;role&quot;:&quot;richLink&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/oct\/14\/election-harris-trump-issues-policies&quot;},&quot;ajaxUrl&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/api.nextgen.guardianapps.co.uk&quot;,&quot;format&quot;:{&quot;design&quot;:0,&quot;display&quot;:0,&quot;theme&quot;:0}}\"\/><\/figure>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/jan\/01\/trump-biden-latino-voters-poll\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Polls have indicated that Trump is making inroads<\/a> with Hispanic voters, who \u2013 like multiple other demographic groups \u2013 say they favour the former president on economic issues. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/article\/2024\/aug\/15\/kamala-harris-latino-voters\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Latino voters are an increasingly important voting bloc<\/a> in several swing states. At the town hall, in front of 100 voters, Trump did not mention his plans to order the largest mass deportation in US history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">He also dodged or dismissed tough questions about his rhetoric and policies concerning immigrants. When a voter, who mentioned he was a registered Republican, asked why Trump keeps repeating the debunked myth that Haitian immigrants are eating pets in Springfield, Ohio, Trump doubled down.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">\u201cI was just saying what was reported,\u201d Trump said \u2013 adding that migrants were \u201ceating other things too, that they\u2019re not supposed to\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">Guadalupe Ramirez, whose parents immigrated from Mexico, asked Trump for more details about his proposals and asked why he had urged legislators to vote against a bipartisan immigration reform bill. Trump provided no details, but instead criticised Democratic leaders, including the governor of Illinois, alleging that migrants were driving up crime, and boasted that he had the \u201cstrongest border\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">When Jorge Vel\u00e1zquez, a California farmworker, asked bluntly who would do the backbreaking labor of harvesting America\u2019s fruit if Trump were to deport the many undocumented workers who currently do the job, the former president dodged.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">He accused newer immigrants of stealing jobs from Hispanic people in the US, and characterised migrants \u2013 as he often does \u2013 as \u201chundreds of thousands of people that are murderers, drug dealers and terrorists\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">\u201cWe have to have people that are great people come into our country,\u201d he said. \u201cI want them in even more than you do.\u201d But he never directly addressed deportations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">During her town hall with Univision, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/oct\/16\/kamala-harris-fox-news-interview\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Kamala Harris<\/a> highlighted her policies to address inflation and protect abortion rights. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/oct\/17\/kamala-harris-fox-news-interview-key-takeaways\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">She also warned<\/a> that her opponent was sowing misinformation and division.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">\u201cI know that the vast majority of us have so much more in common than what separates us, and part of what pains me is the approach that frankly Donald Trump and some others have taken, which is to suggest that it\u2019s us versus them \u2026 and having Americans point fingers at each other, using language that\u2019s belittling people,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">\u201cI don\u2019t think that\u2019s healthy for our nation, and I don\u2019t admire that.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/oct\/17\/donald-trump-miami-town-hall-migrants-eating-pets-comments\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump \u2013 who has built his presidential campaign on the idea that immigrants are \u201cdestroying\u201d the US and promoting mass deportation \u2013 faced blunt, tough questions from undecided Hispanic &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=115188\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8629],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=115188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}