Trump Calls for Deportations, Cites Kids Who Don’t Speak English 

It’s no secret that Donald Trump has long promised a widespread immigration crackdown should he retake the White House in 2024. Still, in recent weeks the former president’s rhetoric on immigration has reached an authoritarian fever pitch. On Friday, Trump justified his desire for mass deportations by claiming that American schools “are loaded up with people that don’t speak a word of English.” 

During an appearance on the Eric Bolling Podcast, Trump ranted at length about the influx of migrants entering the United States through the southern border, and promised “mass deportations, especially rapidly of the criminals.”

When asked by Bolling to elaborate on what he meant by mass deportations, Trump chose to focus on kids who don’t speak English. 

“Our country can’t hold this. We don’t have rooms in our hospitals, our schools. They go into classes. They don’t speak English. Nobody knows what to do,” Trump said. “They have languages that nobody even knows. You have a lot of languages in this world. They have languages. Well, we don’t have any people that even understand or know those languages — they can’t teach them, they’re all over the place. We have classrooms in schools which are loaded up with people that don’t speak a word of English, and the schools are there and they have no idea what to do about it. It’s a very sick situation.”

The former president’s comments were first reported by MeidasTouch. 

There is no law in the United States requiring individuals to speak English, as this country has no official language, but anti-immigration conservatives have long attempted to use linguistic diversity to demonize migrant communities. Trump’s promise of mass deportations is part of a large-scale plan to completely reshape the legal landscape of immigration should he win in 2024. As reported by Rolling Stone, Trump plans to bestow sweeping powers upon himself on “day one” of his presidency and will attempt to use that authority to deploy thousands of U.S. troops to the southern border, as well as to build an extensive network of migrant detention camps. 

Stephen Miller, a racist anti-immigration hawk who’s worked closely with the former president on immigration policy, recently told The New York Times that “any activists who doubt President Trump’s resolve in the slightest are making a drastic error: Trump will unleash the vast arsenal of federal powers to implement the most spectacular migration crackdown.”  

Over the weekend, the former president once again made explicit his disgust for migrant communities. During a Saturday rally in New Hampshire, Trump declared that migrants are “poisoning the blood of our country … That’s what they’ve done. They’ve poisoned mental institutions and prisons all over the world — not just in South America, not just the three or four countries that we think about, but all over the world. They’re coming into our country, from Africa, from Asia — all over the world. They’re pouring into our country.”

President Joe Biden’s campaign likened the former president’s comments to the words of genocidal Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler, who frequently accused Jewish people and other groups he viewed as undesirable of poisoning German society. 
“Donald Trump channeled his role models as he parroted Adolf Hitler, praised Kim Jong Un, and quoted Vladimir Putin while running for president on a promise to rule as a dictator and threaten American democracy,” the campaign wrote in a statement. “Trump is not shying away from his plan to lock up millions of people into detention camps.”

It’s no secret that Donald Trump has long promised a widespread immigration crackdown should he retake the White House in 2024. Still, in recent weeks the former president’s rhetoric on immigration has reached an authoritarian fever pitch. On Friday, Trump justified his desire for mass deportations by claiming that American schools “are loaded up with people that don’t speak a word of English.” 

During an appearance on the Eric Bolling Podcast, Trump ranted at length about the influx of migrants entering the United States through the southern border, and promised “mass deportations, especially rapidly of the criminals.”

When asked by Bolling to elaborate on what he meant by mass deportations, Trump chose to focus on kids who don’t speak English. 

“Our country can’t hold this. We don’t have rooms in our hospitals, our schools. They go into classes. They don’t speak English. Nobody knows what to do,” Trump said. “They have languages that nobody even knows. You have a lot of languages in this world. They have languages. Well, we don’t have any people that even understand or know those languages — they can’t teach them, they’re all over the place. We have classrooms in schools which are loaded up with people that don’t speak a word of English, and the schools are there and they have no idea what to do about it. It’s a very sick situation.”

The former president’s comments were first reported by MeidasTouch. 

There is no law in the United States requiring individuals to speak English, as this country has no official language, but anti-immigration conservatives have long attempted to use linguistic diversity to demonize migrant communities. Trump’s promise of mass deportations is part of a large-scale plan to completely reshape the legal landscape of immigration should he win in 2024. As reported by Rolling Stone, Trump plans to bestow sweeping powers upon himself on “day one” of his presidency and will attempt to use that authority to deploy thousands of U.S. troops to the southern border, as well as to build an extensive network of migrant detention camps. 

Stephen Miller, a racist anti-immigration hawk who’s worked closely with the former president on immigration policy, recently told The New York Times that “any activists who doubt President Trump’s resolve in the slightest are making a drastic error: Trump will unleash the vast arsenal of federal powers to implement the most spectacular migration crackdown.”  

Over the weekend, the former president once again made explicit his disgust for migrant communities. During a Saturday rally in New Hampshire, Trump declared that migrants are “poisoning the blood of our country … That’s what they’ve done. They’ve poisoned mental institutions and prisons all over the world — not just in South America, not just the three or four countries that we think about, but all over the world. They’re coming into our country, from Africa, from Asia — all over the world. They’re pouring into our country.”

President Joe Biden’s campaign likened the former president’s comments to the words of genocidal Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler, who frequently accused Jewish people and other groups he viewed as undesirable of poisoning German society. 
“Donald Trump channeled his role models as he parroted Adolf Hitler, praised Kim Jong Un, and quoted Vladimir Putin while running for president on a promise to rule as a dictator and threaten American democracy,” the campaign wrote in a statement. “Trump is not shying away from his plan to lock up millions of people into detention camps.”