Trump claims border wall would have prevented drowning deaths of father and daughter

[Judi Lynn]

‘If they thought it was hard to get in, they wouldn’t be coming up’

Adam Forrest @adamtomforrest
13 hours ago

Donald Trump has suggested that if his border wall had been built along the United States-Mexico border, the father and daughter found washed up on the bank of a river, migrants from El Salvador attempting to reach the US, would not have died.

Speaking in Osaka at the end of the two-day G20 summit, the US president was asked about the shocking image of Oscar Ramirez, 25, and Angie Valeria, almost two years old, seen face down in the Rio Grande.

“The father and the beautiful daughter who drowned ... if they thought it was hard to get in, they wouldn’t be coming up, they wouldn’t be coming up and so many lives would be saved,” Mr Trump told reporters at Saturday’s press conference.

Discussing the river in which they were found dead, the president added: “You know the Rio Grande is very tough ... it has moments where it can be very calm and then all of a sudden it becomes totally violent and then people get swept away.”

More:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-border-wall-father-daughter-drowning-deaths-migrants-oscar-martinez-angie-valeria-a8980371.html

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1. If DJT had not been born, at least one 13 y/o girl would not have been raped.

If DJT had not been born, at least one 13 y/o girl would not have been raped.