close
close

Trump announces plan to seize cartel assets to help families victimized by “migrant crime.”

Donald Trump said Tuesday his administration will seize “the assets of criminal gangs and drug cartels” and give the proceeds to families affected by “migrant crime” if he is elected the 47th president next week.

The funds, the 78-year-old told reporters at Mar-a-Lago, would create a compensation fund for victims of crimes committed by people who are in the U.S. illegally.

“The government will help with the recovery,” Trump added.

The 45th president spoke for about an hour exactly a week before Election Day, focusing heavily on combating illegal immigration, one of the pillars of his platform.


Trump announced plans to seize assets from drug cartels. Getty Images

“I know we talk about inflation and the economy, but to me there is nothing, nothing more important than destroying the fabric of our country by forcefully housing people there,” Trump said.

The Republican candidate then aired a video showing Alexis Nungaray, whose 12-year-old daughter Jocelyn was allegedly abused and strangled by two illegal migrants who were caught and returned to Texas before the attack.

The grieving mother blamed Vice President Kamala Harris' border policies for her daughter's death.

“My daughter is six feet under because of the guidelines she was allowed to follow,” Alexis Nungaray said. “Kamala Harris had a job, and she failed not only me, but my daughter as well. She failed Jocelyn. She was only 12.”

“President Trump reached out to me and expressed his sincere condolences, not as a former president, but as a father, as someone who cares about me,” the grieving mother continued. “I believe that Donald Trump needs to be back in office. At least I can know that my next child will be safe in this country.”

Alexis Nungaray previously said Harris did not reach out to her after her daughter's death and did not “sincerely apologize.”

“What Kamala did to Jocelyn and her family is the most heartless and cold-blooded betrayal imaginable,” Trump said. “Thousands of cases just like that, thousands, when the border opened.”

Trump had previously said he would crack down on criminal gangs and order the largest deportation of illegal immigrants in American history, citing the Alien Enemies Act of 1798.

Another mother, Tammy Nobles, also spoke on Tuesday about her daughter Kayla Hamilton, who was illegally strangled with a telephone cord by a member of the MS-13 gang in the United States.

“I just wanted to say Homeland Security didn’t do their job. The health and social services have not done their job. The Biden-Harris administration has not done its job,” Nobles said. “If they had done their job and made that one call to El Salvador, my daughter would still be alive today.”