President Trump marveled that they have secured the U.S. southern border to the point where “zero” people tried to cross in the past 11 months, during a Mother’s Day event with “angel moms” in the Rose Garden on Friday. “I call them stupid borders, not open. I call them stupid borders by stupid people,” Trump said. “And the migrant criminals that they let pour into our country, bad things happened.” “Bad things happened,” he repeated. “Twenty-five million people came into our country. Many of them were criminals. Many of them were murderers. They allowed them in with their open-border policy of stupidity.”

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Among those with us this afternoon are a number of the Angel Moms who saw their precious children stolen from them by the open-border policies of the radical left. Open borders – I call them stupid borders, not open. I call them stupid borders by stupid people that put them there. And the migrant criminals that they let pour into our country, bad things happened. Bad things happened. Twenty-five million people came into our country. Many of them were criminals. Many of them were murderers. They allowed them in with their open-border policy of stupidity. These incredibly brave and resilient women have turned terrible tragedy into unyielding resolve, becoming advocates so that other mothers do not have to endure the same heartache that they’ve felt all their lives. They’ve felt for so long. They raised the most beautiful child, and it’s taken. And they’ve spent so many years – in many cases, I see some of you, I’ve known you for years, and others are, unfortunately, new members of that club. And I say unfortunately. It’s a sad thing. Should have never happened. Should have never happened. In their honor, we’ve rapidly turned the worst and most dangerous border in the history of our country into the strongest border in American history. We have no people come in during the last 11 months. We have zero. Zero. Nobody even tries to come up. You know, you used to read about the thousands of people that would pour in. They’d just come up in caravans. I came – I think it was my name. I came up with it. It looked like a caravan, 25,000, 30,000 people pouring up. They walked through Mexico. They come from all different locations. They come from all over the world, actually. But they came in through our southern border, and they’d come up, and just let them walk in. They’d walk in. Nobody had any idea who they were. They were murderers – 11,888 murderers. They were allowed to come into our country. We’ve gotten a lot of them out. Many of them murdered more than one person. What a shame. What a disgusting shame that people can even think that this is okay is pretty incredible. But for the past 12 months, that’s been our number. And these numbers are done by people that – when I say zero, I mean I actually mean zero. It’s hard to believe, actually. But they’re done by people that tend to be somewhat on the left, so they’re not going to give us a fair shake. And they say that people don’t come anymore because they know they’re not going to get through. So when they know they’re not going to get through, they just don’t come. And just on that, we save a lot of lives, because that journey up from Honduras and El Salvador and lots of other countries, or from the Congo, where they drop them there and they walk up and they come through our country. They emptied the prisons of the Congo into the area of the southern border and then told them to just walk in because stupid Americans are going to accept you beautifully. And these were hard, mean, vicious criminals they allowed into our country. How anybody can vote for these people is hard to believe, okay? It’s hard to believe.

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