[Epoch Times] President Donald Trump called out the Democratic party for putting illegal immigrants over America’s inner cities as he gave an impassioned response to the 2020 candidates who fought for the spotlight in two days of live debates earlier this week.Speaking to an animated crowd of supporters at a rally in the Bank Arena in Cincinatti, Ohio, Trump pointed out how Democrat leaders have been leading inner city communities for years, and have had no success in turning things around.
"The rage-filled Democratic party is trying to tear America apart," he said. "No one has paid a higher price for the far left's destructive agenda than American's living in our inner cities. They have paid a dear price‐you see what's happening. We spend billions and billions and billions for years and years. And it's stolen money and it's wasted money, and it's a shame."
Trump said the Democrat’s "greatest betrayal" was their support for open borders. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) said during the July 30 debates that she would decriminalize illegal border crossings, which are currently a criminal offense, if she were elected president in 2020.
But Trump said, "These open borders would overwhelm schools and hospitals, drain public services and flood communities with poisonous drugs. It’s tough enough.
"The conditions in Nancy Pelosi’s once great city of San Francisco are deplorable" he said. "Nearly half of all the homeless people living in the streets in America happen to live in the state of California. What they are doing to our beautiful California is a disgrace to our country. It’s shame. The world is looking at it.
"Look at LA with the tents and the horrible, horrible disgusting conditions," Trump continued. "You have a governor who invites the whole world ... we’ll give you healthcare. Who wouldn’t come up? How crazy is this."
The president then raised what he said was a solution that both parties could come together on.
"Today, I have a simple proposal for Democrat leaders: to support legislation to end illegal migration and we will use the vast savings to rebuild our inner cities," he said. "That’s the way we should be doing."