Former President Donald Trump asserted Wednesday that people crossing the U.S.-Mexico border are bringing contagious disease with them. “They’re coming in as terrorists. Many, many terrorists are coming in, and people are coming in with very contagious disease,” Trump said Wednesday evening during his interview with New York radio station WABC. “You know, like it’s all of a sudden you see there’s a run on tuberculosis.
They speak languages we don’t even know about. We have people with languages that we know nothing about. It’s crazy,” Trump continued. Much of Trump’s violent rhetoric about an out-of-control Southern border is routine rally material for him, with the former president repeatedly claiming that people crossing the border are from “mental institutions” and “insane asylums.