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Coral Murphy Marcos and agencies

Trump leans into anti-immigrant rants and Harris barbs at Wisconsin rally

Man in suit yells into microphone.
Trump in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, on Saturday. Photograph: Kamil Krzaczyński/AFP/Getty Images

Donald Trump spoke on Saturday in the battleground state of Wisconsin, escalating his anti-immigrant rhetoric and taking his personal insults against Kamala Harris up a notch.

Trump’s speech in the small community of Prairie du Chien, where a Venezuelan in the US illegally was detained in September for allegedly sexually assaulting a woman and attacking her daughter, was unusually devoted almost entirely to undocumented immigrants. He wrongly claimed that immigrants in the US were violent criminals, referring to them as “stone-cold killers”, “monsters” and “vile animals”.

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