ハリス氏は「精神障害者」　不法移民問題めぐりトランプ氏

【プレーリーデュシアン（米国）ＡＦＰ＝時事】米大統領選の共和党候補、ドナルド・トランプ前大統領は２８日、ウィスコンシン州で演説し、民主党候補のカマラ・ハリス副大統領を「精神障害者」と呼んだ。また、不法移民が一般市民の家に入り込み、喉を切り裂こうとしていると主張。１１月の大統領選での返り咲きを目指して、人種差別的な発言を一段と激化させている。（写真は、共和党の大統領候補、ドナルド・トランプ前大統領）
　トランプ氏の発言は、ハリス氏が２７日にメキシコとの国境を訪れ、亡命申請と不法移民の取り締まり強化を表明したことへの対抗とみられる。
　トランプ氏との接戦を繰り広げる中、不法移民問題は、世論調査でハリス氏の評価を最も下げているトピックの一つとなっている。
　トランプ氏はウィスコンシン州の小さな町プレーリードゥシーンで、支持者を前に演説。ハリス氏の前日の演説を罵倒し、暴力的な犯罪者の「侵略」に責任があるのはジョー・バイデン大統領とハリス氏だと述べた。
　トランプ氏は「ジョー・バイデンは精神的に障害を負った。カマラは生まれつきそうだった。考えてみれば、わが国にこんなことが起こるのを許すのは精神障害者だけだ」と語った。
　今年は不法移民の数が急減し、連邦捜査局（ＦＢＩ）は犯罪が全体的に、特に殺人事件が減少していると報告している。それにもかかわらずトランプ氏は、米国は不法移民の攻撃を受けていると主張。「彼らはあなたのキッチンに入り込み、あなたの喉を切るだろう」「米国民に対してレイプ、略奪、盗み、殺人を犯すだろう」とまくし立てた。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2024/09/30-17:02）

Donald Trump on Saturday called Democrat Kamala Harris mentally impaired and said illegal immigrants are out to cut the throats of ordinary Americans in their own homes as he doubled down on the racially charged rhetoric fueling his unprecedented bid to regain the US presidency.
Trump was seeking to strike back at Harris after she visited the US-Mexico border on Friday and vowed to do more to control asylum claims and undocumented migrant crossings.
The issue is one of the Democratic vice president?s weakest in polling, as she runs neck-and-neck against Trump in the November 5 election.
Trump dismissed Harris?s speech at the border, swearing and telling supporters in the small town of Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, that President Joe Biden and Harris are responsible for an invasion of violent criminals.
Anti-immigrant sentiment has been at the core of Trump's appeal in economically depressed, majority-white parts of the country ever since his 2016 presidential victory, but the rhetoric is turning ever more extreme as election day nears.
The 78-year-old businessman -- the first major presidential candidate in US history to be a convicted felon and subject of multiple ongoing court cases -- said former California prosecutor Harris, 59, is dumb.
Joe Biden became mentally impaired. Kamala was born that way. She was born that way. And if you think about it, only a mentally disabled person could have allowed this to happen to our country, he said.
Harris, meanwhile, spent Saturday at a fundraiser in San Francisco, California, where she said Trump was using the same tired playbook we've heard for years.
This election is about two very different visions for our nation and we see that contrast on the campaign trail, she said.
Trump spoke in Wisconsin while flanked on stage by large mugshots of migrants accused of crimes, painting a hellish picture of an America under violent assault -- despite a plunge this year in illegal border crossings and what the FBI says is a steep decline in crime overall, particularly murder.
They will walk into your kitchen, they'll cut your throat, Trump said of illegal immigrants.
Small towns in America are terrified of migrants coming in and, even when they haven't arrived, they?re terrified, he said. They will rape, pillage, thieve, plunder and kill the people of the United States of America.
The illegal migrants, whom he called animals, will take the jobs of minorities and of union workers, he added.
Apparently rankled by Harris?s bid Friday to deliver a tough message on the Mexican border, Trump cursed on the nationally streamed event and branded her a liar.
He complained that Fox News, the conservative network which has provided him with a loyal platform throughout his White House career, had covered Harris's speech.
They shouldn?t be allowed to put it on, he said.
Evidently, Trump was aware that his speech was unlike what Americans have been used to in presidential campaigns over the years.
He paused at one point to say: Isn?t this a wonderful and inspiring speech? I?ve got people sitting in the front row -- they?re going 'oh my God.'
This is a dark, this is a dark speech, he said.