Trump says human traffickers are leaving pregnant illegal immigrants to die of dehydration 'all over' Texas as his donors claim they must 'always make sure that your guns are around'
President
Donald Trump said Wednesday that immigrants who cross into the U.S. from the south are dying of dehydration 'all over' the state of
Texas because human smugglers drop them in the desert and tell them to walk to Houston or Dallas.
'They're dying on their fields. All over,' the president said. 'They go over, they find bodies lying all over the field, including many pregnant women. Many pregnant women. They give them a little water: 'Go out and start walking. Walk to Dallas.' And Dallas is 250 miles away. It's really bad. '
Trump was speaking at a fundraiser in San Antonio when he asked for reporters traveling with him to come in and hear the stories from donors to his 2020 campaign.
Supporters and local leaders who were not immediately identifiable said drug cartel members wait outside ranches and oil fields with weapons.
'Always make sure that your guns are around, and hope that they don't do anything to you,' one man said.
Immigrants crossing illegally (pictured) from Mexico into Texas are terrorizing property owners and their families, a group of donors told the president in San Antonio
Reiterating the danger human and drug traffickers pose to Texans, he said, 'They wait at the gates, and they kill people.'
Another man vented about living in a border region 'where your wife, if she doesn't carry, she doesn't have a chance' and 'where you can't go up to a gate and open the gate without a guy standing there with a rifle, because people want to steal your truck and they'll do it and kill you.'
The president said in response: 'Who the hell can live like this?'
He said he asked one rancher, 'Why aren't people around to help these people?'' He seemed to marvel at the rancher's response which is that this is a vast state' with a 'tremendous' number of people.
'I come from New York. You have Fifth Avenue and that connects to Park Avenue and it's not too far away,' Trump said, 'but this is, you know, hundreds of miles between places!'
The president blasted Democrats in Congress for refusing his immigration reform proposals while he praised Republicans and the donors who back them.
A donor said Brooks County, Texas is one of the most common areas for dead illegal immigrants to be found. Another claimed Texans roaming their land on horseback often discover the bodies.
The first rancher said coyotes – human traffickers – often hide in the brush. Police and border agents chasing them often leave when they can't find the smugglers.
'We've gotten up at three in the morning, and packed up our car, and then driven back to San Antonio, because we just did not feel safe,' the person said.
Trump chimed in to say, 'They'll be dropped off, and they start walking, and they'll say Houston's right down the road, but it's actually 300 miles away. And we find dead people from Guatemala, Honduras, from El Salvador, from Mexico – all over the place.
'I said, 'Nobody's ever said that,' ' he said. 'Many, many dead people. Many. Also, they come in, they raid their houses, and it's very dangerous. And they're told never to leave their house at night. And in the day, during the day, always carry a gun and know how to use it.'
The president said the ranchers told him, 'Where they have their fences, because these are big ranches, where they have their fences, never go near a gate, unless you have two people, and especially at night, and make sure both of you are carrying a weapon. A gun. I said, 'Nobody's ever told me this.' This doesn't get out in the papers.'
The rancher backed Trump up, saying that 'numerous people' have been found dead and it has been happening for years in south Texas, 'because they drop them off and tell them, Houston's just over the horizon.'
Trump says smugglers are leaving pregnant women to die of dehydration 'all over' the state of Texas | Daily Mail Online
