Trump echoes Nazi propaganda and pushes lie that ‘no one speaks languages’ of migrants in wild border speech

Donald Trump falsely claimed that “nobody speaks the languages” of migrants crossing the US’s southern border, in another wild and rambling campaign speech, in which he also echoed his previous remarks that were criticised as being similar to Nazi propaganda.

Both Mr Trump and President Joe Biden held duelling campaign trips to the southern border on Thursday in an attempt to seize the narrative around immigration.

The former president, speaking from Eagle Pass, Texas, wildly claimed that there were “millions of people from places unknown” coming into the US that “don’t speak languages”.

“Everybody I speak to says how horrible it is, nobody can explain to me how allowing millions of people from places unknown, from countries unknown, who don’t speak languages,” he said.

“We have languages coming into our country, nobody that speaks those languages. They’re truly foreign languages. Nobody speaks them.”

The national language of Mexico is Spanish. Census figures from 2019 showed that there were almost 42 million people that speak Spanish in US homes.

The former president, speaking from the border in Eagle Pass, Texas, said that there were ‘millions of people from places unknown’ coming into the US

Mr Trump’s language lies follow what border officials have signalled is a growing number of people crossing the US-Mexico border, with Republican states moving thousands of migrants into Democratic-led cities.

Elsewhere in his remarks on Thursday the former president slammed what he tried to claim is the “Joe Biden invasion”, claiming it has led to a surge in “migrant crime” and directly linking it to the death of Georgia college student Laken Hope Riley.

He also claimed that jails and mental institutions around the world are