Trump judicial nominee once called illegal immigrants 'maggots'
A federal district court nominee of President Trump's once referred to illegal immigrants as "maggots" during a campaign event in Texas, in comments highlighted by Slate on Thursday.
Michael Truncale, Trump's nominee for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, allegedly made the remark during a 2014 candidate forum in a suburban Texas county in response to questions about border security.
Truncale called the U.S.-Mexico border "porous" and said there were "bad influences coming in" such as drugs and "illegal gangs," and suggested the Pentagon give used military equipment from the war in Iraq to border patrol.
"With regard to immigration, we must not continue to have the maggots coming in," he said, according to Slate.
The event, during Truncale's unsuccessful bid to replace former Rep. Ron Paul (R), was hosted by the Dallas area Galveston County Republican Party.
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