Former President Trump campaigned within the Wisconsin city of Prairie du Chien on Saturday, making migrant crime a core a part of his speech after a rape suspect was arrested within the small, rural neighborhood.
The rally, which was imagined to happen exterior, however was moved indoors resulting from a Secret Service staffing scarcity, centered on migrant crime. In the course of the speech, Trump referenced the arrest of assault suspect Alejandro Jose Coronel Zarate, 26, who’s an alleged member of Venezuela’s violent Tren de Aragua migrant gang.
Earlier this month, Zarate was charged with sexual assault, battery, strangulation and suffocation, along with false imprisonment, youngster abuse and disorderly conduct, in line with WXOW.
The suspect, who’s accused of sexually assaulting a mom and abusing her daughter “under particularly brutal circumstances,” was arrested in Prairie du Chien on Sept. 6.
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Trump mentioned the arrest of Alejandro Jose Coronel Zarate at his rally in Wisconsin. (Getty Photographs / Crawford County Jail)
“Just this month, right here in this beautiful town, police arrested an illegal alien member of a savage Venezuelan prison gang known as Tren de Agua,” Trump described. “These are really bad ones. This vile monster was charged with holding a mother and daughter captive against their will and sexually assaulting them again and again and again.”
The Republican presidential candidate additionally took goal at his opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, who has been criticized for her border insurance policies.
“This animal crossed Kamala’s wide open border, along with hundreds of thousands of others that are worse than him, that are worse than him,” Trump continued. “He was arrested and released in the sanctuary city of Minneapolis.”
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Former President Republican presidential candidate Trump delivers remarks on the Prairie du Chien Space Arts Middle in Prairie du Chien, Wis., Saturday. (Kamil Krzaczynski/AFP by way of Getty Photographs)
“And by the way, I’m going to end all sanctuary cities immediately upon taking over,” he added.
Final week, Rep. Derrick Van Orden, R–Wis., advised Fox Information Digital that the neighborhood of Prairie du Chien was shaken by the arrest. Van Orden’s grandchildren stay lower than a mile away from the home the place the mom and daughter have been abused.
“Why should a town of 5,500 people… be afraid of letting their kids play in their front yard?” the politician mentioned. “It wasn’t like this three years ago.”
Van Orden famous that Wisconsin’s farming industries depend on migrant labor, however pressured the necessity to enact immigration reform for the sake of public security.
Folks wait in line at dawn forward of former President Trump’s marketing campaign occasion on the Prairie Du Chien Space Arts Middle in Prairie du Chien, Wis., Saturday. (Brandon Bell/Getty Photographs)
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“I’ve been to the border three times….They let a guy in the country with gang tattoos, and you get a medical screening before you come over the border. They give them a medical exam, because they don’t want people coming over with tuberculosis,” the Republican congressman mentioned incredulously.
Fox Information Digital’s Christina Coulter contributed to this report.
