Former President Donald Trump vowed Saturday to end the nation’s migrant crisis if re-elected by pushing Congress to eliminate sanctuary city rules protecting illegal border crossers.
“Today, I am announcing a new plan to end all sanctuary cities in North Carolina and all across our country,” the Republican presidential nominee told a crowd of 10,000 in Wilmington, N.C.
“I will ask Congress to pass a law outlawing sanctuary cities nationwide, and we will bring down the full weight of the federal government on any jurisdiction that refuses to cooperate” with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Customs and Border Patrol, he added.
“As soon as I take office I will surge federal law enforcement to every city that is failing, which is a lot of them, to turn over criminal aliens, and we will hunt down and capture every single gang member, drug dealer, rapist, murderer and migrant criminal that is being illegally harbored,” Trump at a rally in Wilmington, North Carolina.
“We will get them out of North Carolina and send them home where they belong.”
Trump spoke before a crowd of about 10,000 at Aero Center Wilmington. It was his first outdoor rally since Sept. 15, when authorities thwarted a second assassination attempt on the Republican presidential nominee’s life.