As Congress follows up its serious flirtation with open-borders “immigration reform” by debating open-jails “criminal sentencing reform,” and as the Obama administration calls young criminals “justice-involved individuals” (you can’t make this stuff up), Donald Trump has now weighed in strongly on the side of protecting law-abiding citizens. In remarks on Friday to the National Rifle Association, Trump sought to provide a clear contrast between his law-and-order positions and the liberal agenda of President Obama and Hillary Clinton.
Trump said the following:
“President Obama tried to take the guns from law-abiding Americans but has reduced prosecutions of violent criminals who use guns. President Obama is even releasing violent criminals from the jails, including drug dealers and those with gun crimes, and they’re being let go by the thousands, by the thousands.
“Many of these are also—I’m sure you’re not gonna be surprised to hear this—illegal immigrants. President Obama pushed for changes to sentencing laws that [would] release thousands of dangerous drug-trafficking felons and gang members who prey on civilians….
“This is Hillary Clinton’s agenda too, to release the violent criminals from jail….She wants people released that you wouldn’t want to walk on the street with, you wouldn’t want to look at. And, you know, whether it’s Kate in San Francisco—you see what happened there—or Jamal—I’ve become great friends with his father—Jamal was shot in the face three times, by someone who wasn’t supposed to be here—or, and I always say this because this was tragic, a 65-year-old veteran, a woman who was a great woman, raped, sodomized, and killed by an illegal immigrant who wasn’t supposed to be here, we’re gonna straighten it out.”
Anderson, author of An Alternative to Obamacare, is a Hudson Institute senior fellow.
