President Trump asserts that approximately 11,000 convicted murderers are at large within the United States.
President Donald Trump alleges that thousands of terrorists and murderers reside in the US, vowing to overturn many of his predecessor Joe Biden’s policies. These remarks followed the signing of several executive orders aimed at tightening immigration restrictions. These measures include bolstering border security and eliminating birthright citizenship.
The president also declared drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations and reclassified Yemen’s Houthi rebels as a terrorist group.
“We have terrorists in our country by the thousands, we have murderers in our country by the tens of thousands … we’re going to take care of it,” Trump stated Wednesday in his first post-election interview.
Trump informed Fox News that roughly 11,000 individuals convicted of murder are currently living in the US, with 48% having committed multiple murders.
He accused “other countries” of “emptying jails” into the US, citing a purported 78% decrease in Venezuela’s crime rate.
“They took their street gangs and they moved them into the US, and you’re seeing that in Colorado and Los Angeles and other places,” the president commented.
A Pew Research Center study from last year showed Mexico as the leading source of US immigrants, with approximately 150,000 legally crossing the border in 2022. India (145,000) and China (90,000) followed, along with Venezuela, Cuba, Brazil, and Canada, each contributing 50,000 to 60,000 immigrants.
Pew Research Center’s latest survey suggests around four million Mexicans live in the US without legal authorization, although this represents the lowest proportion since the 1990s.
The think tank reported a substantial increase in unauthorized immigrants from countries other than Mexico, rising from 5.8 million to 6.9 million between 2019 and 2022. El Salvador (750,000), India (725,000), Guatemala (675,000), and Honduras (525,000) were among the countries with the largest unauthorized immigrant populations in the US after Mexico.