Former President Bill Clinton‘s campaign used his opinions as a soundbite in response to former President Donald Trump‘s attempt to blame former president for the demise of Georgia medical student Laken Riley.
Clinton was attempting to make a more compelling circumstance that Trump is to blame for her death by ordering Republicans in Congress to reject an immigration bill earlier this year. He has been sent to Georgia to plan for Vice President Kamala Harris.
Trump’s plan clipped the next part of Clinton’s post in a blog to X, deploying it on social media, where it then was recirculated by Trump-friendly caregivers and followers.
” You got a case in Georgia not very long ago, did n’t you — they made an ad about it”, Clinton said, referencing the killing of Laken Riley. ” A young woman who had been killed by an immigrant. Yeah, well, if they’d all been properly vetted, that probably would n’t have happened”.
Bill Clinton says Laken Riley’s death “probably would n’t have happened” if Kamala did her job at the border, continues on to imply that we need illegal immigrants for cheap labor.
He was supposed to be running for Kamala. YIKES. pic. twitter.com/k55Ee8rVH3
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom ) October 14, 2024
Trump’s campaign, which is heavily focused on reducing illegal immigration, said Clinton was making the point for them. According to the Trump War Room account posted on X,” He was supposed to be campaigning FOR Kamala.” ” YIKES”.
During his comments, Clinton accused Trump of hampering the bill because” there would n’t be a problem]if it passed], and he could n’t keep people all torn up and upset”.
Nevertheless, Clinton’s defense of Harris, who he stated was” the only candidate who has actually endorsed a bill that would hold down immigration in any given year to a certain point”, might be causing new headaches for her as the timeline of Clinton’s story does n’t line up.
The illegal immigrant accused of killing Riley, Jose Antonio Ibarra, crossed the border in September 2022, was released into the United States, and then was arrested in February. Even if the border bill had been approved in the same month as the Senate’s vote on it, the Riley case would still not have changed.
Bill Clinton claims that far-left open-border policies by Kamala Harris and extreme House Democrats have gone too far, according to National Republican Congressional Committee spokesman Will Reinert. ” Unfortunately, swing-district House Democrats voted against every reasonable border security bill this Congress that could have saved Laken Riley’s life”.
Clinton also raised some eyebrows when she claimed that there is a need for more immigration because of the low birthrate.
” I do n’t think Americans are anti-immigration, they’re anti-chaos”, Clinton said during a speech in Columbus, Georgia. ” They recognize, at least most people do, we’ve got the lowest birthrate we’ve had in well over 100 years. We’re not at the replacement level, which means we need to have someone here if we want to keep growing the economy.
He joked,” Unless one of you is one of these artificial intelligence geniuses who has discovered how we can all grow without any work.” ” Which I’m not sure would be beneficial for us,” I believe that getting up and going to work every day helps us a little.
Bill Clinton on migrants:” Most Americans recognize … we got the lowest birthrate we’ve had in well over a hundred years, we’re not a replacement level, which means we’ve gotta have somebody come here if we want to grow the economy” pic. twitter.com/PdLvxeuAtM— Tom Elliott ( @tomselliott ) October 14, 2024
Steve Cortes, a former Trump adviser, said in a clip of Clinton speaking that” Democrats want to replace American citizens with immigrants.”
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Clinton is touring rural Georgia, a key swing state, as the Harris campaign looks to shore up support among black voters, with whom he is especially popular.
Trump is leading Harris in the Peach State by a narrow 0.5-percentage-point margin, according to the RealClearPolitics polling average. After unexpectedly winning the state four years ago, Democrats are hoping to maintain Georgia as their front.