Trump floats outrageous claim that Black Americans are ‘going to die’ because immigrants are taking their jobs

Donald Trump and his allies have spent years amplifying a conspiracy theory that Democratic officials are intentionally letting people into the country illegally to“replace” the voting population.

But lately, the former president has been claiming that the “invasion” is specifically coming after Black Americans.

He now claims that “the Black population is going to die” without his violent immigration agenda in place, pitching his anti-immigration platform as a way to attract Black voters.

“The Black people are going to be decimated by the millions of people that are coming into the country,” he told Bloomberg in an interview published on July 16.

“There will never be a decimation like this, and they’re already feeling it,” he added. “Their wages have gone way down. Their jobs are being taken by the migrants coming in illegally into the country.”

His language then turned apocalyptic.

“The Black population in this country is going to die because of what’s happened, what’s going to happen to their jobs — their jobs, their housing, everything,” he said. “I want to stop that. … They’re taking everything.”

Trump told Bloomberg that his plan for “the Black population” includes stopping “20 million people from coming into the country that’ll work for one-third what they’re working for.”

He then suggested that he believes President Joe Biden wants people who live in the country illegally to take Black Americans’ jobs from them.

“They’re all losing their jobs. It’s not a story yet, but it will be. Does that make sense to you?” he said. “It’s a terrible thing that’s happened, and they are affected more than anybody. And they know that I don’t want this to happen. They know because many of them lost jobs already. They know that I