“Biden's border bloodbath”Trump used the term as a description of immigration policy rather than of an identified mass-casualty event.
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Remarks to law enforcement · 2024-04-02
Grand Rapids: Trump Calls the Border a 'Bloodbath' and Describes an Invasion
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Speaking alongside law-enforcement officials, Trump called Biden's border policy a 'bloodbath' and characterized suburban Michigan as facing an invasion. He also asserted that migrants were being sent from countries around the world.
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The remarks employed alarming, militarized language to describe migration. The address offered sweeping characterizations of immigrants that were not supported with evidence about the population as a whole.
“you're under an invasion”He applied the language of invasion to Michigan communities while discussing migration.
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