While speaking at the Major Cities Police Chiefs Association Conference on Wednesday, President Trump asked for law enforcement’s help in turning over the names of the illegal immigrants to Homeland Security Sec. John Kelly for deportation.
During his remarks, Trump talked about the drug epidemic in the United States and its connection to illegal alien crime:
We will fight to increase access to lifesaving treatment to battle the addiction to drugs which is afflicting our nation like never ever before, ever. I’ve been here two weeks. I’ve met a lot of law enforcement officials. Yesterday, brought them in to the Oval Office. I asked a group, ‘What impact do drugs have in terms of a percentage on crime?’ Said 75 to 80 percent. That’s pretty sad. We’re going to stop the drugs from pouring in. We’re going to stop those drugs from poisoning our youth, from poisoning our people. We’re going to be ruthless in that fight. We have no choice. And we're going to take that fight to the drug cartels and work to liberate our communities from their terrible grip of violence.
Trump suggested law enforcement could help with the battle against drugs since they have more direct knowledge about the “illegal immigrant gang members” creating trouble in their communities:
You have the power and knowledge to tell General Kelly, now Secretary Kelly, who the illegal immigrant gang members are. Now you have that power because you know them. You’re there. You’re local. You know the illegals. You know them by their first names. You know them by their nicknames. You have that power. The federal government can never be that precise, but you're in the neighborhoods. You know the bad ones. You know the good ones.
Trump then instructed law enforcement to call Kelly’s office and provide names of the “bad” illegal immigrants so they can be sent “back where they came from”:
I want you to turn in the bad ones. Call Secretary Kelly’s representatives and we’ll get them out of our country and bring them back where they came from and we’ll do it fast. You have to call up the federal government, Homeland Security, because so much of the problems… You look at Chicago and you look at other places, so many of the problems are caused by gang members, many of whom are not even legally in our country.
Trump has previously told the Muslim community that he wants them to “turn in bad ones” who may be conspiring to commit terrorism.
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