Ferguson’s GOP mayor to Trump: You’re wrong — there are no ‘roving bands of illegal immigrants’ here
The mayor of Ferguson, Mo., said Wednesday morning that Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump is wrong when he says that city, which became a symbol of racial unrest after the police shooting of Michael Brown last year, is besieged by criminal illegal immigrants.
"He's never been here, as far as I know," said James Knowles, a Republican who has been mayor of Ferguson since 2011, during an interview with Fox2 in St. Louis.
Trump, during a campaign stop in Iowa on Tuesday, repeated a line he has used before when discussing illegal immigration, in which he claims Ferguson, a 21,000-person, majority black city, is plagued by gangs of violent illegal immigrants.
"You know, a lot of the gangs that you see in Baltimore and in St. Louis and in Ferguson and Chicago, you know they’re illegal immigrants," Trump declared on Tuesday. "They’re here illegally. And they’re rough dudes. Rough people. They’re going to be gone so fast if I win that your head will spin."
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