Skip to playerSkip to main content
  • 1 year ago
Speaking to reporters upon arrival in Morristown, New Jersey, President Trump spoke about farmers in light of his push to deport illegal immigrants.
Transcript
00:00One more. ICE. ICE has said that they're trying to arrest up to 3,000 individuals a day.
00:06There are some communities that are saying they are fearful of being wrongfully detained or separating some families, even if they're undocumented.
00:13Is the fear in some of these communities worth the deportations of these undocumented individuals, a mass deportation program?
00:20Always a tough subject because, look, we have farmers. I love farmers. I want 80%, 85% of the farmers, and I love them.
00:28And I'm never going to do anything to hurt our farmers. And you could also say the leisure business, et cetera.
00:34There are some businesses where you have a disproportionate amount of people that are the people that you're talking about.
00:40At the same time, we have to get the criminals out of our country.
00:43And we're looking at doing something where, in the case of good, reputable farmers, they can take responsibility for the people that they hire and let them have responsibility because we can't put the farms out of business.
00:56And at the same time, we don't want to hurt people that aren't criminals.
01:00Most of the people that came in over the last three years under Biden, I would say probably three and a half to four years, those people, you have a lot of criminals, you have a lot of, I mean, we're looking at that very closely.
01:13You've had people that have worked on farms for 20 years.
01:16It's very hard to go in there and say, you know, you're coming out.
01:19But we're going to let the farmers take responsibility.
01:23They're great people.
01:24They'll do it.
01:25They know the good and the bad.
01:27So the hard part about this is it's not like a normal war where people wear uniforms.
01:31They don't wear uniforms.
01:33But we have murderers that came out of the last four years.
01:36We have murderers.
01:37We have drug lords.
01:38We have people that we don't want to.
01:40We have prisoners.
01:41They emptied out Venezuela and many countries.
01:43They emptied out their prisons into the United States.
01:46We have to get those people out.
01:47But we have stone-cold murderers, 11,888 murderers.
01:53We've already gotten a lot of them out of here, but we don't want them.
01:57So we have to be careful.
01:58But I never want to hurt our farmers.
02:00Our farmers are great people.
02:02They keep us happy and healthy and fat.
02:04Are there other cities that you're going to...
Comments

Recommended