- Former President Donald Trump went after President Joe Biden and his border policies in a Fox interview
- Trump also baselessly claimed that ’50 countries’ were sending prisoners to the US-Mexico border
- Nearly 28,000 Haitian migrants have come to the US in Fiscal Year 2021 compared to just over 4,000 in 2020
- Images from Central and South America show that thousands more migrants are making the perilous journey
- Biden has been blamed for fueling the border crisis by rolling back Trump’s more severe immigration policies
Donald Trump told Fox News on Thursday night that he thought Haitian migrants coming to the US ‘will probably have AIDS.’
The former president said accepting the asylum-seekers would be a ‘death wish’ for the US.
A record-shattering number of Haitian migrants have come to the US in the last month, and the trend doesn’t appear to be stopping as more people continue to pour into the Colombian town of Necocli, a popular spot for smugglers to shepherd people through the perilous Darien Gap.
The Darien Gap is a 66-mile stretch of rainforest between North and South America. Its dangerous terrain is part of the reason it’s been left undeveloped and why it poses such a great risk to the people crossing it now.
More than 70,000 migrants have traveled through the Darien Gap this year, Panamanian authorities have said.
Most of the migrants in recent months have been Haitians, many of whom had been living in Chile and Brazil since the 2010 Haitian earthquake.
‘So, we have hundreds of thousands of people flowing in from Haiti. Haiti has a tremendous AIDS problem. AIDS is a step beyond. AIDS is a real bad problem,’ Trump told host Sean Hannity.
‘Many of those people will probably have AIDS and they’re coming into our country. And we don’t do anything about it. We let everybody come in.’
He added, ‘Sean, it’s like a death wish. It’s like a death wish for our country.’
Trump infamously once referred to Haiti as a ‘sh*thole country’ during a meeting with bipartisan senators at the White House in 2018.