countdown on u.s polls:Donald Trump Did Not Call All Mexicans ‘Rapists’ And ‘Criminals’

During Tuesday night’s vice presidential debate,
Virginia Senator Tim Kaine claimed that “As a
candidate, [Donald Trump] started his campaign
where he called Mexicans rapists and criminals.”In his June 16, 2015 speech announcing his run
for the presidency, Donald Trump said the
following:When do we beat Mexico at the border? They’re
laughing at us, at our stupidity. And now they
are beating us economically. They are not our
friend, believe me. But they’re killing us
economically.
The U.S. has become a dumping ground for
everybody else’s problems.
Thank you. It’s true, and these are the best and
the finest. When Mexico sends its people,
they’re not sending their best. They’re not
sending you. They’re not sending you. They’re
sending people that have lots of problems, and
they’re bringing those problems with us.
They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime.
They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good
people.
But I speak to border guards and they tell us
what we’re getting. And it only makes common
sense. It only makes common sense. They’re
sending us not the right people.
It’s coming from more than Mexico. It’s
coming from all over South and Latin America,
and it’s coming probably— probably— from the
Middle East. But we don’t know. Because we
have no protection and we have no
competence, we don’t know what’s happening.
And it’s got to stop and it’s got to stop fast.
Trump was referring to illegal aliens coming over
the U.S.-Mexico border who commit additional
crimes, such as rape. As Breitbart Texas has
extensively documented , it’s common for human
traffickers to “to sexually assault or rape the
females” en route to the U.S., and the smugglers
“usually remove an article of clothing from the
female they rape and they tie it tightly to a tree—
a rape tree.”
Furthermore, it is true that as the U.S. suffers
from a massive heroin epidemic that killed over
47,000 people in 2014 alone, “nearly all” of the
heroin consumed in the U.S. is smuggled in by
Mexican traffickers, as the Washington Post found.
Drug trafficking is an inherently violent operation.
UPDATE: Later in Tuesday night’s vice
presidential debate, while trying to attack Trump’s
detailed immigration policy proposals, Virginia
Senator Tim Kaine again claimed that Donald
Trump and Mike Pence said “all Mexicans are
bad.”
Fact Check: FALSE. These words have never been
uttered by either the Republican presidential
nominee or vice presidential nominee. Again,
Trump specifically criticized the rampant criminal
activities committed by illegal aliens coming
across the U.S.-Mexico border, many of whom
are Mexican nationals.

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