Trump promises to create a compensation fund for victims of illegal immigration crimes

Former President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that if elected, his administration would create a compensation fund to provide compensation to victims of migrant crime, funded by assets of criminal gangs and drug cartels seized by the U.S. government.

Trump hosted an event Tuesday morning at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, that featured mothers of victims of illegal immigration crimes.

“Today I'm announcing that for the first time under my administration, we will seize the assets of criminal gangs and drug cartels and use those assets to establish a compensation fund to provide compensation to victims of migrant crime,” Trump said Tuesday. “And the government will help with reimbursement. But something has to be done and we will do it.”

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Trump criticized Vice President Kamala Harris over her role in the growing migrant crisis at the U.S. southern border, saying she had “obliterated our borders.”

Trump reminded those in attendance that President Biden had appointed Harris as his “border czar.”

Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at a campaign rally at Burns Park in Ann Arbor, Michigan, on Monday, October 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

“She doesn’t want to use that term, but let’s say we just use different terms – she was responsible for the boundaries. Totally responsible,” Trump said. “She never made a single call to the Border Patrol.”

The National Border Patrol Council endorsed Trump earlier this month, Trump said, noting he was “the best president we've ever had and by far the best president at the border.”

“They said she was by far the worst person to ever work with them on the border,” Trump said. “Most incompetent – ​​least caring. Remember, in almost four years not a single call has been made to the Border Patrol…they are great people, men and women…they want to do their job. She never called her once.”

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Trump then played a new video featuring the mother of Jocelyn Nungaray, the 12-year-old girl who was allegedly murdered by two illegal immigrants. Trump described her as “a mother whose life Kamala completely destroyed.”

In the emotional video, Alexis Nungaray recalls her final moments with her daughter and the painful discovery that she had been murdered by two men who were in the United States illegally. The men, who reportedly belonged to a gang known for brutal violence, were arrested by US Border Patrol but then released.

“Kamala Harris was in charge of immigration and our borders,” Nungaray said in the video. “If we had better border policy and no open borders and no catch and release policy, I really believe that all of this could have been prevented.”

Nungaray added: “Kamala Harris had a job, and she failed not only me, but my daughter as well.”

Nungaray recalled that Trump initially reached out to her and said he offered his “sincere condolences, not as a former president, but as a father, as someone who cares about her.”

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump comforts Alexis Nungaray, mother of Jocelyn Nunagaray, who was allegedly killed by illegal immigrants, at the U.S.-Mexico border fence south of Sierra Vista, Arizona, on August 22, 2024. (Rebecca Noble/Getty Images)

“I believe that Donald Trump needs to be back in office,” she says in the video. “At least I can know that my next child will be safe in this country.”

Trump also hosted Tammy Nobles, the mother of Kayla Hamilton, who was allegedly murdered by an illegal immigrant and MS-13 member from El Salvador.

“She broke it on every topic. They broke it together. But in light of this election, she broke it. I can’t let her go,” Trump said. “And I’m going to fix it, and I’m going to fix it real quick.”

Referring to the illegal immigrants being “taken out of the country” as part of his “mass deportation operation,” Trump said that if an illegal person returns to the U.S., “there will be laws that will take effect immediately when they ten.” spend years in prison.” They don't come back to prison.

“And if that’s not long enough, we have to do something else,” he said. “But we don’t want them back. They won’t come back.”

Trump also said that if elected, he would seek the death penalty for any migrant who comes into the country and kills an American citizen or law enforcement officer.

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Trump's event took place late morning Tuesday before he traveled to Pennsylvania for a roundtable and rally.

Harris will speak at the Ellipse in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday evening and plans to deliver her final message to voters.