President Donald Trump suggested Monday that the United States deport not only undocumented immigrants but U.S.-born citizens who commit crimes.
Trump made the eyebrow-raising comment while speaking during a House Republican members conference meeting at Trump National Doral resort, in Miami, Florida.
Trump began by boasting his administration is detaining and throwing undocumented immigrants "the hell out of our country."
"We have no apologies and we're moving very fast," he said, calling them "very dangerous people."
"They're violent people. I used to say these are more violent than our our criminals. In fact, the best part about them is they make our criminals look quite nice, actually by comparison," he said.
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Then Trump turned his ire on violent criminals who "did not necessarily come here illegally."
"They've been arrested 30 times, 35 times, 41, 41 times in a couple of cases. Twenty-five times, 18 times. Many for murder, other heinous charges such as pushing people into subways," he said. "As the train's coming along at 45 mph, boom — you get pushed into the subway."
Other examples, according to Trump, included hitting people in the heads with baseball bats when they're not looking, "punching old ladies in the face, knocking them unconscious and stealing their purse," and people who break into apartments and sexually assault elderly women and beat elderly men.
"I don't want these violent repeat offenders in our country any more than I want illegal aliens from other countries who misbehave," said Trump. "If they've been arrested many, many times, they're repeat offenders by many numbers, I want them out of our country."
Trump said he plans to seek permission "hopefully" to "get them the hell out of our country along with others."
"Let them be brought to a foreign land and maintained by others for a very small fee as opposed to be maintained in our jails for massive amounts of money including the private prison companies that charge us a fortune," he said. "Let them be brought out of our country and let them live there for a while. Let's see how they like it. You'll see crime all over the country dry up essentially. That's what Venezuela and other countries are doing."
Watch Trump's speech below or at his link.