Trump: ‘When Your Prisons Are Filled with So Called Asylum Seekers Who Repaid Kindness with Crime… It’s Time to End a Failed Experiment of Open Borders’

Trump: “According to the Council of Europe in 2024, almost 50% of inmates in German prisons were foreign nationals or migrants. In Austria, the number is 53% of the people in prisons were from places that weren’t from where they are now. In Greece, the number was 54%, and in Switzerland, beautiful Switzerland, 72% of the people in prisons are from outside of Switzerland. When your prisons are filled with so-called asylum seekers who repaid kindness — and that’s what they did, they repaid kindness with crime, it’s time to end a failed experiment of open borders. You have to end it now. I can tell you. I’m really good at this stuff. Your countries are going to hell. In America, we’ve taken bold action to swiftly shut down uncontrolled migration. Once we started detaining and deporting everyone who crossed the border and removing illegal aliens from the United States, they simply stopped coming. They’re not coming anymore. We’re getting a lot of credit for they are not coming anymore. This was a humanitarian act for all involved because on the trips up, thousands of people a week were dying, women were being raped. Nobody’s ever seen anything like it. Raped, horribly, beaten, raped on the trip up, the journey up. It was a long — it was a long walk, it was a long, arduous journey indeed, and it was also a historic victory against human trafficking throughout the region. What we did was a victory. And we saved so many lives of people that wouldn’t make the journey. That journey was loaded up with death. Loaded up with death, dead bodies all along, all along the roads of jungles. To get up, they go through jungles, they go through areas so hot you couldn’t breathe, they were dying of suffocation, areas so hot that you couldn’t breathe. Dead bodies all over. By them not coming, we’re saving tremendous numbers of lives. My people have done a fantastic job and doing what they did — and the American public agrees with it. I mean, I was very proud to see this morning I have the highest poll numbers I’ve ever had. Part of it is because of what we’ve done on the border.”