Trump unveils ‘Operation Aurora’ to deport gang members and calls for death penalty for migrants that kill: Live
Donald Trump holds rally in Aurora, Colorado, which he claims has been taken over by Venezuelan gangs
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During a rally in Aurora, Colorado, former President Donald Trump called for the death penalty “for any migrant that kills an American citizen or a law enforcement officer.”
The comments came after he announced that he would institute a federal “Operation Aurora” to “expedite the removals of the savage gangs.”
“I will invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798,” he added.
According to the Brennan Center for Justice, the law hands the government detention and deportation power which poses “an alarming risk of abuse and rights violations in both wartime and peacetime.”
Trump said he would use the law “to target and dismantle every migrant criminal network operating on American soil.”
The rally took place after Trump disparaged the entire city of Detroit, Michigan, on Thursday, warning that the whole country could end up “a mess” like the Motor City if his Democratic rival Kamala Harris wins November’s election, a pitch unlikely to endear him to local voters that has already inspired a major backlash.
Former president Barack Obama meanwhile delivered an impassioned speech denouncing the Republican’s character and mocking his “constant attempts to sell you stuff”, from gold sneakers to branded Bibles, during a campaign stop in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, championing Harris’s bid for the presidency.
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Whoopi Goldberg was hardly likely to take the Republican calling her “dirty and disgusting” lying down.
Here’s Inga Parkel on how she and her fellow View hosts responded to the nominee’s slur.
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“For the most part, we’ve seen a lot of responsible actors on both sides of the aisle,” Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg told Neil Cavuto on Fox yesterday.
“You would never know from the conversations we’re having which one was a Republican and which one was a Democrat.
“Right now you have a lot of people pulling together, working to get the job done for people, regardless of how you voted.”
Cavuto responded to that by saying: “We also get a lot of misinformation, don’t we? We have people who say in North Carolina – if you’re a Republican, you’re not going to get help.
“If you’re a Democrat, you’re going to get help. I would imagine that does a huge disservice to people working together and scares the bejesus out of others when they believe it.”
Here he is pretty frankly calling out Trump:
Buttigieg subsequently took his message to CNN:
As to the point the secretary raises there, here’s Graig Graziosi’s report on a North Carolina man who says his father-in-law is refusing help from FEMA explicitly because of Trump’s words.
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