Fox panel suggests Trump is 'right' countries not 'sending their best' as alleged crimes by illegal immigrants rock US

A Fox News panel suggested on Wednesday that former President Donald Trump is right that countries are not “sending their best” people as illegal immigrants allegedly commit “horrific” crimes in the United States.

When Trump launched his 2016 campaign, he supposed Mexico is not “sending the best” illegal immigrants in the US and has done so often said during his 2024 campaign that countries are releasing their prisoners and mental patients across the southern border. Retired New York Police Department (NYPD) Inspector Paul Mauro and host Martha MacCallum on “America's Newsroom” appeared to support Trump's claims as they discussed reports of heinous crimes by illegal immigrants.

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“It really feels like almost every day we have a horrible crime,” Mauro said. “And no one is saying that all immigrants in this country have these tendencies that they are all criminals. We all understand that. We understand that the vast majority of even illegal immigrants are here for a better life. But when you let in between 10 and 20 million people that we know nothing about, history has shown us…Castro cleaned out his prisons and asylums, he sent these people here. Most of them were not criminals because he cleaned out the prisons. We know this is a tactic that Maduro is using. Unfortunately, it's no surprise.”

“When the former president says they're not sending the best, in these cases of these people, he's certainly right,” MacCallum responded. “They get lost in the shuffle, don't they? Because there's such a high volume of people going up against it, it makes it impossible.”

The panel was discussing a 25-year-old Ecuadorian illegal immigrant arrested after sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl in Queens, New York, as reported by the New York Post.

“This is just the beginning. They've come from all over the world,” Trump he said Fox News Digital on Tuesday in response to the Queens incident. “They came from prisons. They have come from mental institutions and many terrorists have come to our country… We are a dumping ground for the world.”

Also, earlier on the panel, they discussed Victor Antonio Martínez-Hernández, 23, who was recently arrested by Oklahoma authorities for the August 2023 rape and murder of a mother of five on a hiking trail.

Martinez-Hernandez entered the United States illegally after committing a murder in El Salvador, according to local law enforcement. In addition, Jose Antonio Ibarra, an illegal immigrant from Venezuela with long criminal records, was arrested in February by University of Georgia police and charged with killing Laken Riley, a 22-year-old nursing student after a mid-afternoon run.

US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) recorded more than 7 million encounters with illegal immigrants since the start of fiscal year 2021.

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