Former President Donald Trump on Friday argued that America’s schools and children are “suffering greatly” due to illegal immigration and undocumented students who don’t speak English.
“Our country is being poisoned, poisoned. And your schools and your children are suffering greatly because they’re going into the classrooms, they’re taking the seats and they don’t even speak English. It’s crazy,” he said during a meandering conversation at the Moms for Liberty annual convention in Washington.
For the bulk of the event, held by the conservative education activist group, Trump largely focused on illegal immigration, repeating claims he often makes at campaign rallies that migrants are arriving to the US from “mental institutions” and “insane asylums.”
There is no evidence to support Trump’s claims.
Asked what he would do on the federal level to protect parental rights and “education freedom,” Trump did not get into specifics, but said “no men in women’s sports” and called gender-affirming surgeries “crazy.”
Asked about meeting with victims’ families of crimes allegedly committed by undocumented migrants, Trump raised the case of 22-year-old nursing student Laken Riley, before pivoting to discussing the US withdrawal from Afghanistan and then moving onto talking about eliminating ISIS.
