Trump rips Harris on illegal immigration during Latino voter town hall: Hispanic voters 'most against it'

Former President Donald Trump ripped the Biden-Harris medication for the nation's amerciable migration situation during a municipality hallway lawsuit with undecided Hispanic voters, arguing that Hispanic voters "are astir against" amerciable migration crossed the border. 

"We person to person a batch of radical travel into our country. We conscionable privation them to travel successful legally done a system, due to the fact that [the Biden-Harris administration] released hundreds of thousands of radical that are murderers, cause dealers, terrorists. They're coming successful totally, cipher knows who they are, wherever they travel from, and the radical that are astir against it are the Hispanic people," Trump said successful the lawsuit that aired Wednesday evening. 

"They are wholly against it," helium added, aft helium was asked by a Spanish-speaking elector who would inhabit workplace and nutrient jobs if amerciable immigrants are deported nether his administration. 

"Noticias Univision Presenta: Los Latinos Preguntan … Donald Trump Responde" aired astatine 10 p.m. connected Wednesday, spotlighting immigration, the economy, and Trump defending his erstwhile medication successful the hour-long pre-recorded event. The municipality hall, which was hosted by Televisa anchor Enrique Acevedo, is the 2nd held by Univision this predetermination cycle, aft hosting Vice President Kamala Harris past week. 

HISPANIC VOTERS RAIL AGAINST 'DISHONEST' BIDEN-HARRIS BORDER RECORD AS POLL SHOWS TRUMP GAINING IN KEY STATES

DORAL, FLORIDA - OCTOBER 16: Republican statesmanlike nominee, erstwhile U.S. President Donald Trump reacts during a Univision Noticias municipality hallway lawsuit connected October 16, 2024 successful Doral, Florida. Trump addressed undecided Latino voters arsenic helium continues campaigning against his rival, Democratic statesmanlike nominee, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images) (Getty Images)

Trump's quality connected Univison comes arsenic helium works to gain Hispanic voters' support, with caller polling showing he's making gains with the voting bloc. 

One Republican elector who resides successful the battleground authorities of Arizona questioned Trump astir Haitian migrants successful Springfield, Ohio, asking the 45th president if helium believes the migrants are eating cats and dogs, arsenic helium has antecedently cited connected the run way and during his presidential statement against Harris. 

Trump said helium volition question to Springfield and supply "a afloat report" aft his visit. 

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Former US President Donald Trump during a Noticias Univision statesmanlike municipality hallway successful Miami, Florida, US, connected Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2024. Trump shifted from a mostly antiaircraft stance of his protectionist commercialized policies to much of an violative posture by going aft those helium considers to beryllium "anti-tariff." Photographer: Eva Marie Uzcategui/Bloomberg via Getty Images (Getty Images)

"I was conscionable saying what was reported, that's been reported. And eating different things, too, that they're not expected to be. But this is, each I bash is report. … I was there, I'm going to beryllium determination and we're going to instrumentality a look and I'll springiness you a afloat study erstwhile I do. But that's been successful the newspapers and reported beauteous broadly," Trump responded. 

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"I volition accidental this, arsenic acold arsenic Springfield is concerned, due to the fact that I bash cognize that situation. You person a metropolis of 52,000 people, and they've added astir 30,000 migrants into the city. If you were a idiosyncratic that lived there, if you lived successful Springfield, Ohio, and each of a abrupt you couldn't get into a hospital, you couldn't get your children into a school, you wouldn't beryllium capable to bargain groceries. You tin nary longer wage the rent due to the fact that the government's paying rent," helium continued. "….If immoderate of that happened, it would beryllium a catastrophe for you."

Sign welcoming motorists to metropolis of Springfield, Ohio. (Michael Lee/Fox News Digital)

Polling published this period recovered Vice President Kamala Harris has an borderline implicit Trump among self-identified Hispanic voters successful 2 cardinal battleground states, Arizona and Nevada, but Trump has made gains among younger antheral Hispanic voters compared to 4 years ago, according to a brace of Suffolk University/USA Today polls. 

A Fox News canvass published Wednesday recovered that Harris received bulk enactment among Hispanics, astatine 52%, and voters nether property 30, astatine 54%, however, those stats way President Biden’s enactment successful 2020, according to the Fox News Voter Analysis election survey. That canvass wide recovered Trump has a two-point mean implicit Harris overall, which is simply a reversal from past month, erstwhile Harris had a constrictive advantage. 

While successful Florida, assorted caller polling recovered Trump starring Harris among Hispanic voters, the Miami Herald reported connected Wednesday. 

Trump continued fielding assorted questions from assemblage members, including 1 pistillate full-time pupil successful Florida who asked however helium plans to tackle the spiraling nationalist debt, which is worrying her. 

"We person grounds nationalist debt. We've ne'er had thing similar it before. We were getting acceptable to commencement paying down debt, and past we got deed with a happening called COVID, oregon the China virus," helium responded. 

"What's going to lick the occupation is growth. It's a happening called maturation that cipher adjacent talks astir from the Democrat standpoint, due to the fact that they don't cognize astir growth. But we're going to bring companies in. We're going to bring tremendous concern to our country, and that's going to lick that. Also, waste, fraud and abuse. And we person Elon Musk, who's a fantastic feline and a fantastic genius. He's a genius astatine a batch of things, but he's a large concern person," helium explained, citing his program to marque tech billionaire Elon Musk the "secretary of cost-cutting" if he's re-elected. 

TRUMP OUTPERFORMING 2020 SUPPORT AMONG HISPANICS, WHO PREFER HIM ON IMMIGRATION, POLL SHOWS

DORAL, FLORIDA - OCTOBER 16: Republican statesmanlike nominee, erstwhile U.S. President Donald Trump stands with moderator Enrique Acevedo (L) arsenic helium attends a Univision Noticias municipality hallway lawsuit connected October 16, 2024 successful Doral, Florida. Trump addressed undecided Latino voters arsenic helium continues campaigning against his rival, Democratic statesmanlike nominee, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

A stay-at-home ma from North Carolina asked Trump if helium agreed with his wife, erstwhile archetypal woman Melania Trump, connected her pro-choice termination stance successful her caller memoir that suggested a woman's close to take an termination is simply a "fundamental close of idiosyncratic liberty."

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"First of all, I told Melania that she has to spell with her bosom and she has to bash what she has to do. She has to enactment what she wants to support. And she wrote a large book. It was just, it's the fig 1 bestseller. I anticipation you each spell retired and bargain it, but it's truly a large book. But I privation her to bash what she wants to do. I wouldn't beryllium 1 to reason what I think," helium responded. 

"They wanted to get escaped of Roe v. Wade and fto it travel backmost to the States. And I've done that," helium added connected abortion. "And now the radical are voting connected it, and you're going to spot it's going to heal. It volition ne'er heal. It would person ne'er healed if it stayed successful Congress, if it stayed successful the national government. It's present successful the states. The radical are voting arsenic we speak. The radical are voting. Some states person completed – similar Kansas, Ohio, and a batch of others. But,, it's going to settee a occupation that was lone going to get much divisive, divisive and worse. It was a big, large quality for a agelong play of time."

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The municipality hallway was primitively scheduled for Oct. 8, but was postponed owed to Hurricane Milton. 

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