USA Trump on criminal migrants: Have "bad genes"

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has once again made disparaging remarks about migrants. "You know, a murderer, I think it's in the genes," Trump said in an interview. "And we have a lot of bad genes in our country right now." The US government has let hundreds of thousands of people into the country who are criminals, he said.

Asked about Trump's statement, Karine Jean-Pierre, spokeswoman for US President Joe Biden, said: "That kind of language is hateful, it's disgusting, it's inappropriate and it has no place in our country." Trump is running against Biden's running mate Kamala Harris in the presidential election on November 5. Polls predict a close race.

Trump repeatedly portrays immigrants as dangerous criminals and uses racist insults. He also uses dehumanizing language and said, for example, that they are "poisoning the blood of our country". In his inaugural speech as a presidential candidate at the Republican Party convention in Milwaukee in July, he indirectly referred to migrants as garbage.