President Donald Trump on Wednesday promoted his administration’s crackdown on US cities whereas talking to a gaggle of chief executives at a reception in Davos, Switzerland, boasting about crime statistics and praising aggressive regulation enforcement ways.
“We’ve got tough law enforcement, smart law enforcement and patriotic law enforcement,” Trump mentioned, claiming that the US “had the best crime numbers that we’ve had in ever in recorded history,” regardless of the nation “having a lot of people in the country that shouldn’t be here,” Trump mentioned.
“One example is Washington, DC,” he mentioned, including at one other level that “Memphis is amazing,” and that “when you go to Louisiana, what we’ve done there has been incredible.” He added that it will be “much more helpful if we could have a little participation.”
The president once more claimed, with out offering proof, that Democratic leaders are privately in search of his assist. “We have a couple of Democrat mayors who, very quietly, are begging us for help,” Trump mentioned, including that he would do the identical if he have been of their place. “I would do it,” he mentioned. “I’d be saying, ‘Mr. Trump, could you quietly come over here and would you do this, President, for me, send about 1,000 troops in here, and we do it fast, and we get rid of the criminals.’”
Trump went on to reference the seen presence of safety forces in main cities.
The president’s feedback come as Minnesota has emerged as the newest focus of the Trump administration’s intensified, coast-to-coast immigration enforcement crackdown.